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jedberglast Saturday at 7:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can be a super productive Python coder without any clue how assembly works. Vibe coding is just one more level of abstraction.

Just like how we still need assembly and C programmers for the most critical use cases, we'll still need Python and Golang programmers for things that need to be more efficient than what was vibe coded.

But do you really need your $whatever to be super efficient, or is it good enough if it just works?


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kshri24last Saturday at 7:25 PM

One is deterministic the other is not. I leave it to you to determine which is which in this scenario.

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pqtywlast Saturday at 9:41 PM

Perhaps there is no need to actually understand assembly, but if you don't understand certain basic concepts actually deploying any software you wrote to production would be a lottery with some rather poor prizes. Regardless of how "productive" you were.

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