> Everyone will be forced to start vibe-coding, a fad type coding where you don't know the language, but you hope that the AI does, and will spin out reams of useless unintelligible random gibberish that no one understands, hopefully to compile into something that only by luck produces any answer at all, for investors to shout for glee, until CloudStrikes strikes again, and there will be no one to explain how it happened. Computers were not that useful in the first place.
I mean, I can walk you through how my c# gets compiled down to IL but start going lower and definitely by the time you’re in assembly and machine code and it’s as inscrutable to me as is how AI is spitting out answers.
The days when someone could explain how every piece of these machines worked are long gone
It's surprisingly straightforward. If you run your application with `DOTNET_JitDisasm='methodName'` you will get exact code that gets executed for a given method. It's pretty well-annotated and readable. You can also control JIT behavior with e.g. AggressiveOptimization flag (which can ironically make performance worse) which bypasses tiered compilation and pgo-optimization, always producing the same output.
But other than that yes, with techniques like load value prediction and memory-data dependent prefetching there is little you can do at the codegen level.
If you post a small snippet I can give a quick breakdown of what's going on. Assembly in its core is very simple - it's primarily just register moves, loads/stores, arithmetic operations, bitwise manipulation, calls and returns. As soon as you get familiar with syntax, even without in-depth knowledge, you can get a general idea of what's going on when comparing to the original code side-by-side (obviously it's not going to work with async or methods with yield returns but you get the idea).
I appreciate the offer and agree with you that it could be learned, much in the same way I could sit down and learn French.
What I’m pointing out though is that I don’t actively know it currently and am still able to produce software and earn a significant income despite that. I don’t know that everyone not understanding how AI works or even how the software it produces is supposed to work, adds a new type of risk to society
I mean, I can walk you through how my c# gets compiled down to IL but start going lower and definitely by the time you’re in assembly and machine code and it’s as inscrutable to me as is how AI is spitting out answers.
The days when someone could explain how every piece of these machines worked are long gone