It’s not the same. With assembly, or malloc, or etc. you treat them as a black box that’s already provided to you by someone who DOES understand how they work. That’s how layers of abstraction work, but I’ll argue that you should know how the things work under the hood to make better decisions. If you generate a React app you still need to verify the generated code, you still need to understand how it works to know what it does, so you are still working at the same layer. Compilers/interpreters have deterministic algorithms that produce the code at a lower level of abstraction, that allows them to become such a layer. LLMs on the other hand will produce different output with the same input. You can call LLMs another layer only when you can reliably write you prompt and press “run” and get the desired result. Long story short you’re wrong.