// Hacker Noon · 8 May 2026

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

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.

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