[chris_money202]

In theory, you could create a hardware block that decodes text based assembly generated by an LLM, which would allow you to load the direct output the LLM produced into memory. In effect the LLM could write self modifying code on the fly without a compiler / runtime / operating system. Say if the LLM was a hardware chip itself instead of software, that’s incredibly powerful.

[throwaway27448]

I suppose. But you could just as easily do this with C as the target language and then invoke a C compiler. Or just generate machine code directly. It's not clear what assembly specifically provides.

[chris_money202]

Assembly decreases the complexity of the hardware decode block significantly, lower complexity, better speed. C was created to reduce the cognitive load on the developer, with LLMs we don’t technically need to reduce cognitive load if we say compute isn’t a finite resource (it typically is but for sake of argument here).

Assembly is just more aligned to creating purely hardware primitives of LLMs and reasoning than C or upper languages