alt Hacker NewsRight, just how back in the day, people who loved writing assembly hated high level languages and people who found assembly too tedious loved compilers.
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cushychicken • 04/24/2025
It’s almost like there’s a big range of different comprehension styles among human beings, and a varying set of preferences that go with those.
First of all, Lisp, Fortran and COBOL had been around most of the time when assembly was popular. Assembly was used because of resource constraints.
Secondly, you are not writing anything you get from an LLM. You prompt it and it spits out other people's code, stripped of attribution.
This is what children do: Ask someone to fix something for you without understanding the result.