For background, I am a programmer, but have largely ignored everything having to do with AI (re: LLMs) for the past few years.

I just got to wondering, though. Why are these LLMs generating high level programming language code instead skipping the middle man and spitting out raw 1s and 0s for x86 to execute?

Is it that they aren’t trained on this sort of thing? Is it for the human code reviewers to be able to make their own edits on top of the AI-generated code? Are there AIs doing this that I’m just not aware of?

I just feel like there might be some level of optimization that could be made by something that understands the code and the machine at this level.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They would not be able to.

    Ai only mix and match what they have copied from human stuff, and most of code out there is on high level language, not machine code.

    In other words, ai don’t know what they are doing they just maximize a probability to give you an answer, that’s all.

    But really, the objective is to provide a human with a more or less correct boilerplate code, and humans would not read machine code