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it makes simple things easy but hard things impossible. We'll see.

The transition from assembly to C was to a different layer of abstraction within the same context of deterministic computation. The transition from programming to LLM prompting is to a qualitatively different context, because the process is no longer deterministic, nor debuggable. So your analogy fails to apply in a meaningful way to this situation.

Why isn't it debuggable?

Ultimately it’s about being able to create features within a certain period of time, not just to write code. And in that context the shift from assembly to C and the shift from deterministic programming to LLM prompting seem to have similar magnitudes of impact.

We tried with Common Lisp, Prolog... it didn't work for all cases, and it won't work again.

I'm wondering why you need LLM to show you how to use variables in shell scripts when you apparently make shell scripts everyday.

It's like if you use english everyday, but don't bother to learn the language because you have google translate (and now AI).