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Arjun Guha
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@wingo @shriramk related thought. At this time, platforms like Replit and Claude Code on the web show you the code. It’s not hard to imagine a future where they don’t. The code is the true output that can be distilled. They may conclude that it needs to be secret the same way that training data and model weights are secret. So all you may see is some webassembly blob or streaming video.
@wingo @shriramk There is a very large class of programmers who can ignore assembly language. But, that has never been the case for most programmers writing performance-critical code. For example, see the recently published Anthropic performance engineering exam, which involves writing code for a made-up VLIW simulator.
The question now is, what is the growing class of tasks we can do entirely in natural language? Also, why does it matter if the natural language produces computer programs to do the task, or if the model/agent "just does it" itself.
Unrelated talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahtbcExEKng
