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self_awarenessyesterday at 12:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes.

I verify dynamic linking, ensure no superfluous dylibs are required. I verify ABI requirements and ensure a specific version of glibc is needed to run the executable. I double-check if the functions I care about are inlined. I consider if I use stable public or unstable private API.

But I don't mean that the author doesn't know what's going on in his snippet of code. I'm sure he knows what's going on there.

I mean that upvoters have no idea what's going on, by boosting vibe coding. People who upvote this are the reason of global software quality decline in near future.


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mrheosuperyesterday at 4:46 PM

All your stuff is still pretty high level compared to the pure metal inside CPU. Do you which register the compiler decied to use to store this variable, or does the CPU will take this execution branch or not ?

It's all abstraction, we all need to not know some low level layer to do our job, so please stop gatekeeping it.

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