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by majorbugger 20 days ago
Why is this even a legit question? I need to keep writing code to stay relevant, not to forget my craft, be able to review code... So many reasons. AI doesn't change a thing.
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avaer 20 days ago
Before my time ppl mostly did things in asm, I bet the vast majority of people reading this have never touched assembly and will never have any reason to. This is quickly becoming true of most "code". AI has changed that.

One way to "stay relevant" would be to admit that.

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softwaredoug 20 days ago
Yet as a C developer for 15 years I frequently looked at asm and on occasion even wrote a little.

And that is a far stronger abstraction than LLMs :)

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deadbabe 20 days ago
assembly is compiled deterministically so you don't really need to look at it, LLMs though can write a variety of things at random based on the prompt. It is not the same.
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cozzyd 20 days ago
How can you evaluate what your compiler is doing without looking at the assembly? The many users of godbolt suggest it's pretty common.
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majorbugger 20 days ago
I have also never used punch cards, what does it prove?
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