[CamperBob2]

All other arguments aside... Yes, people do review compiler output, all the time in fact!

No. In reality, this is almost never done anymore.

We used to do it all the time back when performance mattered, but that was then.

HN readers don't have to like it, and obviously they (we) don't, but shooting the messenger won't help.

[xyzzy_plugh]

In my circles we're actually doing it even more because we can have an LLM take a look at the assembly.

[CamperBob2]

Your circles are... rarefied.