[itsdavesanders]

Once AI is fully writing software autonomously and humans don’t need to see that code anymore, then why not just have AI write iteratively more efficient assembly? (Meaning make the software work then turn it over to an optimization agent that can drive out all inefficiencies until perfection.)

Those efficiencies will eventually be driven into all parts of the system. AI will be able to run the most efficient code on the most efficiently designed processors, that can be designed with the knowledge that only AI is going to use them. And then we can remove ALL the weird abstractions and accommodations we had to make for human brains.

I’m not saying it will happen tomorrow but language choice is just a temporary concern.

[croes]

Since when is AI code efficient?

It’s based on human code, most of that isn’t efficient.