dhh: agents will drill to assembler and microcode; critics say high-level logic applies to AI too
mgill25 · x · 2026-09-27
dhh argues Rust is merely a good prompt compilation target for now—soon agents will push into C++, assembler, even microcode, calling it myopic to think the agentic drill bit stops before reaching "computing bedrock." A replier counters the analogy: high-level languages let humans code better by removing details to worry about, and AI will follow the same logic—by that reasoning AI could also skip testing since it can "just reason through it."
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