I think this is thinking small. An AI doesn't need to use human readable programming languages or frameworks to solve problems. Also software engineers are expensive. Corporate greed will drive this faster.
Why would an AI writing assembly give it an advantage?
> Also software engineers are expensive. Corporate greed will drive this faster.
Are they? You can get a software engineer for less than $10,000/year.
When I was going to university in the mid-00s I had quite a few "advisors" recommend against going into computer science, because corporate greed meant all the jobs were going to be outsourced and US salaries would tank as a result.
There are lots of non-human-optimized options that aren't raw assembly. Any intermediate representation, for one (e.g. LLVM IR, C-- used by ghc, Python/JVM bytecode, abstract syntax trees to simplify parsing).
And even raw assembly is often not what the CPU operates directly on (see: microcode).
That is the problem with GAN generated art. It is pretty good but then you don't have a psd to modify it so it is useless for most purposes.
But hey, we got code generated in 5 minutes. Can't bugfix it tho...