AI as Next-Gen Compilers: Right Comparison, Wrong Assumption
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Generative AI
Amid the ongoing discussion surrounding whether technical knowledge is still needed in the age of AI, I noticed one particularly popular argument: "With AI, no one will have to look at code anymore, just like we no longer have to look at the machine code or bytecode produced by compilers." The comparison seems sound at first glance. We began programming with electric circuits and punched cards, moved to assembly code, then to low-level languages like C and C++, and eventually arrived at high-level languages like Java, Python, or JavaScript.