**Sideways, Not Up: Why AI Is Not a New Abstraction Layer** > There is a popula

**Sideways, Not Up: Why AI Is Not a New Abstraction Layer**

> There is a popular claim that AI coding assistants are the next rung on the ladder of abstraction, sitting above high-level languages just as those languages sat above assembly. I take the strongest version of that argument seriously, then argue it does not hold. A compiler is a deterministic, specified, reproducible abstraction you can stop thinking about. An LLM is none of those things. It does not move us up the l...

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- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：ai-products
- **发布时间**：2026-06-23 15:08（北京时间）
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