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Re:AI Zealotry by llmslave3 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:23AM (#46563301)
I suspect the argument is that both AI and a compiler enables building software at a higher level of abstraction.
Re:AI Zealotry by Retric on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:50AM (#46563716)
Abstraction is only useful when it involves a consistent mapping between A and B, LLM’s don’t provide that.

In most contexts you can abstract the earth as a sphere and it works fine ex:aligning solar panels etc. Until you enter the realm of precision where treating the earth as a sphere utterly fails. There’s no realistic set of tests you can right where an unsupervised LLM’s output can be trusted to generate a complex system which works if it’s constantly being recreated. Actual compilers don’t have that issue.