LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
Summary
The post argues that LLMs are not a higher level of abstraction, contrasting deterministic progression from binary to Python with the probabilistic nature of LLM outputs. It presents a mathematical framing showing that LLMs produce probabilities rather than fixed artifacts and warns against treating them as the same kind of abstraction as prior stack upgrades. The author advocates for self-aware engineers who scrutinize AI artifacts and avoid overreliance on AI as a substitute for fundamental programming practice.