[guywithahat]

But then we return to the premise of the article, which is that LLM's struggle with higher level code that has fewer examples. C is much more repetitive and has millions of examples from decades of use.

Plus if we assume the bottle neck on skynet is physical materials and not processing power, a system written in C can theoretically always be superior to a system written in another language if we assume infinite time can be spent building it.