I suppose. But you could just as easily do this with C as the target language and then invoke a C compiler. Or just generate machine code directly. It's not clear what assembly specifically provides.
Assembly decreases the complexity of the hardware decode block significantly, lower complexity, better speed. C was created to reduce the cognitive load on the developer, with LLMs we don’t technically need to reduce cognitive load if we say compute isn’t a finite resource (it typically is but for sake of argument here).
Assembly is just more aligned to creating purely hardware primitives of LLMs and reasoning than C or upper languages
