The LLM as a compiler from an even higher-level language

LLMs seem to have turned into a kind of compiler from an even higher-level language. I have written in machine code, assembly, C, Python, and everything in between. Every time, I winced at how wastefully the machine used its resources, and at the same time I marveled at the leap in performance.

Right now everyone is asking the same thing: what happens to programmers? In my experience they are not going anywhere, but they will not need to read code, just as I almost never have to fire up a disassembler.

What they will actually need is to understand how their own creations work under the hood. And that, damn it, is going to be anything but easy.