[paulddraper]

Yes?

What do you think technological advancement does?!?

It removes work.

Now, if you say that unlike for every other time there isn’t more opportunity created…I guess you have an interesting point.

But yeah — duh.

I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”

[nobodyandproud]

It replaces one type of work with another, and reduces quality.

Automating, then, commoditizing, then centralizing has lead to a drastic reduction in food quality and a critically vulnerable food-supply chain.

We’ve started down a similar path where we do not know how to manufacture.

The logical conclusion isn’t just losing workers, but the science and understanding, due to short-term gains and inability to train the next generation.

[bzzzt]

> I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”

There never where enough assembly programmers to create all the business and leisure software we have in assembly anyway.

There are quite a few left, but they do foundational work at CPU or other hardware companies or are building compilers and runtimes others use. In other words: you're not in the same circles.

[bigfatkitten]

> I don’t know many assembly programmers. They’ve been “wiped out.”

I know quite a few. Turns out there’s still a lot of value in understanding how computers work.

They make enormous amounts of money reverse engineering binaries and developing exploits for sale, mostly to governments.

[fsmv]

Hi I write in assembly for fun. Definitely not paid for that though.