the premise assumes nobody reads the code but thats not true. I review every AI generated diff and the model gets things wrong constantly, subtle stuff like changing a function signature that breaks another module or creating circular dependencies. If that was assembler I'd have zero chance of catching it

also you still need to maintain it. When something breaks in production you need to understand what the code does.

the real bottleneck with AI coding isnt the language its context. The model needs to understand your conventions, patterns, business logic. That gets exponentially worse with lower level languages not better.