Are LLMs a Higher Level of Abstraction? No, And Here's Why

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The Myth

I am seeing the claim everywhere online that LLMs are a higher level of abstraction. If you claim that you haven’t seen this claim, then you had better stop reading now - this blog post is not for you. 1

Specifically, I am seeing the claim that LLMs are the next step in the abstractions we had, going from programming in binary to programming in assembly to programming in C to programming in Python.

Now, I am told, the programming in LLMs is the next abstraction. Apparently, the people who do programming in LLM believe that it is a similar, if not identical, move to a higher abstraction than the previous abstractions we have seen.

This is ...

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