Researcher Reiterates: Foundation Models Will Split Like RISC vs CISC

Developer lateinteraction revisits a two-year-old prediction that foundation models will diverge like RISC and CISC, arguing that just as no one hand-writes assembly, agent development should rely on compiler-like frameworks rather than hand-crafted low-level logic.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-19 · 3 related posts

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• Stop hand-writing agent 'assembly': compilers like DSPy are the key idea — lateinteraction · 2026-09-19