I don't care if it's optimal for them. It's clearly good enough. We have, in hand, the ultimate in auditable AI output. We may not be able to audit how it got to the code it delivered, but it is really quite good at delivering code we can read. It would be very silly for us to give it up so that they can be somewhat more efficient or something, if they even would necessarily be that much more efficient.

To the point that I would support banning the creation of an AI-only language that can't be read by humans. Huge, huge, huge step in the wrong direction.

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Naturally, it is probably inevitable.

But it's still a terrible idea.