if this is true we will have to trust committing prompts not code.

I don’t worry about assembly because the abstraction layer is reliable. I don’t worry about ISAs, ucode, transistors, etc. the abstraction layer is reliable.

The same is not true for LLMs today. Circumstantial evidence: people commit the lower layer. That’s not an abstraction any more than an IDEs tab complete or “new project template” is an abstraction.

When someone stops reading the output entirely and has a codebase that is only prompts, I’ll hear them out on skill obsolescence.

(Edit: changed to hypothetical)