I think what is different from the assembly -> C analogy is that we are now non-deterministic. You could almost argue that going to C increased human understand

I think what is different from the assembly -> C analogy is that we are now non-deterministic. You could almost argue that going to C increased human understanding, as we could express problems in a more human way. And while agents enable us to express ourselves in natural language, we lost the determinism along the way.