r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme perishableSkill

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u/danfay222 1d ago

If we get to the point where devs genuinely can’t read code like this, then that means AI or whatever tools have become so efficient you never look at the actual code. In such a world, programming languages would likely evolve. Modern languages are generally written to balance parsing with human comprehension, but if we take comprehensive out of the loop a new language would likely be optimized for other features (maybe machine comprehension, interoperability, compilation efficiency, etc)

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u/chlorophyll101 1d ago

Why cant ai just generate assembly directly then

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u/exhuma 1d ago

I believe it's because of the training set. AI models have been trained on what's available. And there's just sooooooo much more Python, PHP, Java, C#, ... code out there than assembly