Just yesterday, for fun, I asked Codex to generate an “online e-commerce site” in ARM assembly. To its credit, it did actually generate a program that served up a webpage over a socket, but it really did not do what I asked. The program still pulled in a large number of shared libraries (something I’ve never really thought to try in assembly). And… it was not actually a functioning e-commerce site. Iterating on that initial prompt proved painful—the program was extremely brittle and now I had to review and talk about ASSEMBLY. Maybe we can dispense with abstractions someday, but holy cow, not yet. I would much rather write an e-commerce platform in C than try to vibe-assembly my way to one.

Enjoy setting thousands of dollars on fire for fun!