3 ms·
If we're not writing code by hand anymore anyway, why not skip programming languages altogether and have the AI output machine code right away?
by kleiba2 5mo ago
If we're not writing code by hand anymore anyway, why not skip programming languages altogether and have the AI output machine code right away?
- ftmootnomoat 5mo agoCode is for human consumption. Believe it or not, some of us like to understand how things work.
- usernametaken29 5mo agoCode isn’t just execution, code is also abstraction. You need to be able to understand requirement => unit of work. Unless you’re an uber geek this mostly isn’t the case and reading and retaining any amount of assembly will be practically impossible. In a wishful world you could simply have a bunch of markdown specifications that are executed as machine code. But specifications are by design usually ambiguous, and so you need to build some level of abstraction to be able to accommodate and still understand that. That’s what code does, or should do
- 1PlayerOne 5mo agoWell you can read python, you can't read machine code...
- xigoi 5mo ago“Vibe coders” don’t read the code their LLM produces. That’s the whole point.
- kleiba2 5mo agoThanks for getting what I meant. More than one reply to my original comment is along the lines of "but humans cannot read/understand machine code effectively". Perhaps instead of starting my comment with "If we're not writing code by hand anymore anyway", I should have said "writing or reading", but it was implied.
- fragmede 5mo agoIt's not portable and in today's world, you have x86 and ARM to contend with. My argument is that should make Java the default language for LLM output.
- JCTheDenthog 5mo agoThen you could have it output LLVM IR
- JodieBenitez 5mo agoWe still want readable language. We still want code we can check and modify ourselves. For now.