Re:A New Go API for JSON
by kibwen on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:24PM
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This is like saying that a strong man would rather dig a hole by hand than use a shovel. Programming languages are force multipliers, it makes absolutely no sense to bypass them just so you can vibe assembly directly.
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Optimizing compilers were faced with the same disbelief by Assembly developers.
In no sense is this "disbelief". You seem to be laboring under a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of structured programming languages.
I am already using a bagger, while you are arguing for electric shovels.
In case you answer there don't fit the same purpose, there are tiny baggers that replace shovels altogether.
> I am already using a bagger, while you are arguing for electric shovels.
This demonstrates that you continue to misunderstand the analogy.
Let's speak plainly. Someone who attempts to use LLMs to generate assembly directly will be outcompeted by someone who uses LLMs to generate code in a high-level language, which then uses an ordinary compiler to generate assembly. The value of a high-level language is that it defines a more constrained abstract machine than the machine that a CPU represents, which both humans and LLMs alike benefit from.