Comment by aenis
12 hours ago
For a very long while now, we had programmers who never understood any low level concepts at all. They have started with js or python, and never looked 'down'. There are no limits to monstrosities they will consider normal.
Linus Torvalds, a few months ago, said something to this effect when discussing AI coding tools. That his (also, mine) generation was lucky to have started with low level stuff and managed to retain the understanding of the whole stack - and kids these days don't get that. Good luck acquiring this level of feel for computers, algorithms, data structures today, when a kid's first experience with coding will be a seemingly genius chatbot.
>and managed to retain the understanding of the whole stack
No one understands the whole stack. There is too much specialized information.
Even assembly is a high-level language relative to what’s actually going on inside a modern CPU.