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jkubicektoday at 4:01 PM1 replyview on HN

OK sure, but back when old heads were complaining about the kids not knowing assembly, those same kids knew C or Fortran or something.

In 2026, if you call yourself a developer and can't solve FizzBuzz without help, it's hard to argue that you know anything useful at all.


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brooksttoday at 5:38 PM

Do modern languages and compilers count as “help”? Because I could probably do fizzbuzz in x86 assembly, but it would take a while to page that back in, and I suspect most people who call themselves developers today simply could not do it without help.

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