DHH Says AI Coding Agents Will Drill Down to Assembly and Hardware

DHH argued that AI agents currently compile prompts into Rust and will eventually drill down to C++, assembly, and even microcode, while critics countered that high-level language logic remains irreplaceable.

2026-09-26 ~ 2026-09-27 · 2 related posts

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