Comment by constantcrying

Writing assembly is tedious. It takes time and a lot of care. Sometimes it is necessary, e.g. writing certain parts of an OS.

Almost always it involves carefully reading documentation, triple checking everything, mentally imagining the state of the processor, especially concerning whether interrupts can occur or what they would cause.

Having done it a couple of times I, for the first time, really appreciated the abstraction of e.g. C. It made writing code and reasoning about it a lot easier. To be honest, I really dislike the mystique it gets in some circles. In the end it is just another programming language, which just consist of many very small details and limited abstractions.

What I have no doubt about, is that abstractions around Assembly will continue to exist. Maybe LLMs will be really good at writing high performance assembly, but still it will not be something humans really interact with.