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At some point, models will be so smart, hardware will be so cheap that it makes sense for the LLM agent to just write code as low level as possible to optimize for performance and efficiency.

These things are hard for a human to do, but easy for a machine to do.

We are not there yet, not in 2026. Maybe in 2030?

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A smarter agent can write a better compiler and leave the intent in densely packed/verifiable language structure that can encode propositions low level code cannot.

I predict mid-2028 for this

Rate of change is increasing too fast.

Models are likely already doing this inside AI labs because it can be hundreds of millions of dollars for every percentage point increase in hardware inference efficiency.

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