Another version of this question: why have high level languages if AI writes the code abd tests it?

Because high level languages are where the libraries that do all of the heavy lifting exist. Libraries provide a suite of tools for absstracting away all of the complexities of creating a 'simple' web app. I think a lot of newer devs dont realise how many shoulders of giants they are standing on, and all the complexities involved in performing a simpl fetch requeust.

Sure an LLM could write it's own libraries and abstractions in a low level language, and im sure there are some assembler or c level web api wrappers, but they would be nowhere near as comprehensive or battle tested as the ones available for high level languages.

This could definitely change in the future. I think we need a coding platform that is designed for optimised LLM use, but that still allows humans to understand and write it. Kind of a markdown for code. Sort of like what OP is trying to do, but with the built in benefit of having a common shared suite of tools for interoperability.

	▲	rererereferred 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, height of the language aside, why add a dependency to leftpad when the LLM can build the code for you every time? Extrapolate this to ORMs, why use the ORM when the LLM can build a custom query and map it to objects? And this will probably be more performant. Then extrapolate to the whole web framework? Where should we draw the line?

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samrolken 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of today’s top models do a decent job with assembly language!