As we pile more and more abstractions on top with AI, I have been on a really fulfilling quest fueled by curiosity to go more low level.

I've been doing a lot of assembly, C, WASM and plan to top it off with a look at GPU instructions and PTX. I haven't learned as much as in the last two months in years, it's been great. And surprisingly everything has turned out to be much simpler and easier to implement than expected once demystified.

Now to be fair, AI has sometimes given me pointers when I didn't fully understand something. Using Gemini 3 for free has been nice in that regard. However I consciously try to only implement code myself and to actually make sure I learned something that sticks.