In the early 1950s, Grace Hopper coined the term “compiler” and built one of the first versions with her A-0 system1. The compilers that followed abstracted away machine code, letting programmers focus on higher-level logic instead of lower-level hardware details. Today, AI coding assistants2 are enabling a similar change, letting software engineers focus on higher-order work by generating code from natural language prompts3. Everyone from big tech to well-funded startups is competing to capture...