AI will keep improving

https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030

https://epoch.ai/blog/what-will-ai-look-like-in-2030

There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly.

> There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly.

We don’t read assembly because we read the higher level code, which deterministically is compiled to lower level code.

The equivalent situation for LLMs would be if we were reviewing the prompts only, and if we had 100% confidence that the prompt resulted in code that does exactly what the prompt asks.

Otherwise we need to inspect the generated code. So the situation isn’t the same, at least not with current LLMs and current LLM workflows.

> AI will keep improving

Agree. But most code already generated won't be improved until many years from now.

> There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly.

Also agree, but I believe it will be very inefficient and complex code, unlike most written assembly.

I'm not sure tight code matters to anyone but maybe 0.0001% of us programmers, anymore.

Except the point is that you shouldn't need to inspect your assembly. Assembly does exactly what the higher level code tells it to (just about) whereas you cannot read your English prompt and rely on it.