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"Many have compared the advancements in LLMs for software development to the improvements in abstraction that came with better programming languages."

Where can I see examples of this?

Comments comparing LLMs to just another level on the abstraction ladder are fairly commonplace:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439753

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369114

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46366864

Juts the first three I found via hn.algolia.com.

Tons of people throw this argument out on social media. "You keep using assembly while I go up an abstraction layer by using AI."

I can only assume people saying that don't even know what assembly is. Actually, as I typed that out I remembered seeing one comment where someone said "hexcode" instead of assembly (lol)

You never know. Writing machine code in hex directly into memory of the running process is totally a thing and people exposed to this kind of fun long enough just know.

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