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High level languages are analogous to airbrushes or paint rollers, not assistants. They let you paint faster, at the cost of making some things impossible that you would be able to do with a fine paintbrush. Unlike the assistant/LLM, they do not make artistic decisions for you, and their behavior is predictable.


That's your interpretation after being used to high level languages. The assembly purists were not happy back in the days and made the same/similar arguments.




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