[streetfighter64]

First of all, obviously there's more training data on high level languages than assembly / compiled binaries. Secondly, Python, Java or even C is portable to another device. You know, one of the main points of high level languages: that you don't have to rewrite your app from scratch each time you want to change the machine it runs on.

Thirdly, compilers also do type checking and other static analysis and dynamic checks (array length etc). So it's not only got more guardrails against "mistakes" by the LLM, but it's also most likely "easier" for the LLM to "reason" about (in the sense that LLMs can reason).

There's no intrinsic value to having humans read the code, so as soon as LLMs are good enough to work on their own, companies will no longer need to keep developers who can read code as a backup solution.