Comment by Aperocky
25 days ago
Is it really brain atrophy if I never learned to code in ASM in my entire career as compiler has been doing that for me?
A part of me really want to say yes and wear it as a badge to have been coding before LLMs were a thing, but at the same time, it's not unprecedented.
The thing is the compiler does exactly what you want it to 99.999…% of the time so you never have to drop down into ASM
That’s not really true in this case
I think a person with zero coding knowledge would have a lot tougher time using these tools successfully
Is it muscle atrophy if you were a weakling since birth? Is it retina degeneration if you were born blind? No, because atrophy is a loss of a prior strength, and not an ever–existing weakness, but it's just as bad.