2026-05-04 18:25:19
“Think about how you relate to your compiler. You write C , Rust, Go, and the toolchain spits out a binary. Do you open that binary and read through the assembly? Do you schedule a meeting with a colleague to review the object code before shipping?
Of course not. That would be absurd. And not because you blindly trust compilers, you don't. Compilers have bugs. Compilers have had famously catastrophic bugs. But you've constructed an entire apparatus that makes reviewing the output unnecessary: you write tests against observable behavior, you have type systems that constrain what the output can do, you have reproducible builds, you have fuzzing and sanitizers and formal verification in high-stakes domains. You trust the process, not the artifact.
We haven't built that apparatus for coding agents. And that, not the output itself, is what's actually missing.”
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https://skiplabs.io/blog/codegen_as_compiler