{"id":999,"date":"2026-03-31T20:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/?p=999"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:17","slug":"the-reason-im-not-using-ai-high-level-languages-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/the-reason-im-not-using-ai-high-level-languages-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reason I&#8217;m Not Using AI &amp; High Level Languages More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To be clear I like AI, I&#8217;m a fan. I think it will give humans marvelous insight into many things, but I don&#8217;t think it will make software better. And I also don&#8217;t trust the current AI companies for obvious reasons (they seem to be run by industry plants) but this will just be about technical aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a programmer who used to try and design better tools thinking better tools leads to better software and more happiness, but when I started getting more serious about designing an OS I realised the quality of software actually seems to degrade in correlation with better tooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BASIC games still work after decades, C++ games break between Windows versions. MenuetOS is reliable enough to run industrial control panels on, other operating systems are steaming piles of shit that nobody would trust attached to a motor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there are probably a few reasons for this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>High level languages encourage absolute n00bs from the university system to present themselves as qualified experts seemingly without learning any fundamentals (they don&#8217;t seem to teach things like assembler so much anymore, resulting in general incompetence)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> High level languages have basically solved every problem already, usually in a very mediocre one-size-fits-all way, encouraging people to think less about ideal solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toolchain issues can significantly complicate design, deployment, debugging and other things in ways that just aren&#8217;t a problem in C or assembler<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Languages with security features appear to be giving people a false sense of security, you have to actually think of security problems not just &#8220;muh code is impervious to buffer overflows&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I will still release some high level tools, AI toys and the like &#8211; but more because I enjoy these things than for technical or marketing reasons. For now I am finding more enjoyment in replicating the old ways of development with newer\/faster hardware, and I&#8217;m just not having a lot of problems using C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be clear I like AI, I&#8217;m a fan. I think it will give humans marvelous insight into many things, but I don&#8217;t think it will make software better. And I also don&#8217;t trust the current AI companies for obvious reasons (they seem to be run by industry plants) but this will just be about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securelang.net\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}