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by high_byte 2 hours ago
code is like assembly now.

in the olden days (pre-LLMs) we would write high-level code.

the entire layer was high-level code and rarely would we ever need to peak into the assembly:

writing, debugging, architecting, reviewing, testing - all were done in the high-level language layer.

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welcome to present day:

since we don't write code - we write intents, we also shouldn't review code either - we should review intents.

I don't review my code anymore. I ask the agent to generate markdown docs, graphviz diagrams, changelogs, audit reports, etc. I only review that.

I also ask it to write test and evaluate by whether the tests passed or not. I don't need to peak into the tests code - I can also ask plain english, pseudocode, control flow graph, whatever it is I want.

I can ask it to find errors or missing tests and improve that too!

code is like assembly now.

rare are the cases you would need to peak into that level.