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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4
    Aug 14, 2026, 7:42 PM

    This goes a little deeper and a shade more offensive, because of the second claim - that AI will generate binaries directly with no source code. This claim is mostly being made for sensational hypewank reasons, like many big claims Elon makes, but I also think he genuinely does not understand why source code is the thing allowing LLMs to cling to life as a technology that doesn't always entirely fuck up.

    Source code makes such great training material because it's full of recorded intent, and can be cross-referenced with documentation that is ALSO full of recorded intent. Sloppers learned early that having the LLM "plan" first (fill the context window with prediction-generated intent material) improves code gen quality.

    Binaries, as generated artifacts, make crappy training material, because the intent is all stripped out - quite aggressively on release builds. They are unconstrained by even the simulation of meaning. That's why nobody does this, even in Slopper Culture.

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4
    Aug 14, 2026, 7:50 PM

    That's why Claude spends your tokens on so many source code comments. It's not for your benefit - heck, if anything, it gives you more power to cancel your plan and pick up where the robot left off. It's because a couple lines of /* reasoning */ before a function makes a better function, when all you have is a predictive hammer and all source code looks like a predictable nail. The extra token spend is a nice side benefit.

    Even within the machine cult, nobody in their right mind would demolish this well-known load-bearing pillar. Which says something about what kind of mind Dr. Ket is in.

    As the cherry on top? I write C and I look at the generated assembly on a regular basis. Not just to keep my skills sharp, but also because I'm often writing code with some assumptions/intent about the instructions I want to see in performance critical code, so I need to be able to form hypotheses and check them, which is a form of literacy. I don't want to be lost when reading `perf` output, so I put in the work!

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