[danielbln]

To drag out the trite comparison once more: not writing assembly will atrophy your skill to write assembly, yet the vast majority of us is perfectly happy handing this work to a compiler. I know, this analogy has issues (deterministic vs stochastic, etc.) but the code remains true: you might lose that particular skill, but it might not matter as you slide on up the abstraction latter.

[sundar_p]

Not writing assembly may atrophy your ability to read assembly is my point. We still have to reason about the output of these code generators until/if they become bulletproof.