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larsfayetoday at 4:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Do you think LLMs and compilers have a lot of overlap?


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sampullmantoday at 4:20 PM

In an abstract sense, yes. Compilers let programmers work at a higher level of abstraction. LLMs bring it to an even higher level, though the abstraction is much leakier.

For the time being, a good understanding of programming and domain knowledge gets you much farther than without it. There might not be room for as many (professional) programmers as before, though.

Daishimantoday at 4:54 PM

Almost nobody knows how to program in assembly but we're doing fine.

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