Abelson & Sussman, SICP (1985). The abstraction ladder has always moved the “human-readable” layer up one rung. Nobody was meant to read machine code; assembly existed so we could. Then high-level languages existed because assembly still wasn’t readable enough. So if an LLM writes and reads the code, does the spec/prompt just become the new source layer and the code become the new assembly. Output you review but don’t primarily maintain? Or does that break down because, unlike a compiler, the generator isn’t deterministic and you can’t trust the artifact without reading it? submitted by /u/Exciting-Ad8624
Originally posted by u/Exciting-Ad8624 on r/ClaudeCode
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