[vitus]

> Why would an AI writing assembly give it an advantage?

There are lots of non-human-optimized options that aren't raw assembly. Any intermediate representation, for one (e.g. LLVM IR, C-- used by ghc, Python/JVM bytecode, abstract syntax trees to simplify parsing).

And even raw assembly is often not what the CPU operates directly on (see: microcode).

[mjr00]

Yes, but that's not really relevant to what I was asking -- why would using any of those give an AI an advantage over, say, generating Python or C code?