Sideways, Not Up: Why AI Is Not a New Abstraction Layer

There is a popular claim that AI coding assistants are the next rung on the ladder of abstraction, sitting above high-level languages just as those languages sat above assembly. I take the strongest version of that argument seriously, then argue it does not hold. A compiler is a deterministic, speci…

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