[coredog64]

Don't we already have a similar situation today with the compiler and application stacks? I'm not writing my business logic in assembler -- I'm writing it in Java, maybe pulling in some third party libraries, using Spring, and then running on the JVM. All kinds of opportunities for things not to work as I expect and then I have to figure out why.

[userbinator]

The difference is that, as the article points out, traditional programming languages are far more 'exact' - large systems can become difficult to debug, but that largely arises from the complexity of layered abstractions, whose behaviour is still exact. AI-based systems not only add the complexity of abstraction, but also with their inexactness.