Skeptic's take: if LLMs were truly good at engineering, everything would be machine code
tekbog · x · 2026-10-05
Blogger tekbog offers a contrarian observation: if people actually believed LLMs are good at engineering, everything would be generated in machine code from the start — instead, the industry is trying to port 'slopware' to Rust, and even that is failing.
The core point: there's a gap between what LLMs are advertised to do in low-level systems engineering and what they're trusted to do in practice. He concedes: 'maybe in a few years.'
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