How long until AI is not even writing code but producing machine code?

Think about it, all these compilers, tooling, what a waste!

I imagine a future where chipset makers will provide a model you can just prompt to "act upon that chipset" and voila, "You're absolutely right! Here is your binary."

We won't be developers, we won't be devops, we'll be rollmops! /s

Coding agents can write ASM. But if you mean writing the actual byte-code that will require a very different approach at a very different level of abstraction that LLMs are not designed to do. Keep in mind that all LLMs are trained first on text and then fine-tuned on code.

My hunch is that it would take years of hundreds of thousands of developers working with machine code, posting stackoverflow questions with machine code, and publishing github repos written on it with documentation. Thats all the free labor LLMs leveraged to use high level langs.

>We won't be developers, we won't be devops, we'll be modelops! /s

I can still see this happening with higher level langs. the thing is the compiler is not replaced in the training data, more likely LLMs will give rise to semideterministic layers on the compilers

I could see nvidia achieving this first with how nice the devex is with CUDA