I barely know how assembly, CPUs, GPUs, compilers, networking work. Yet, software that I've designed and written have been used by hundreds of millions of people.

Sure, maybe you would have caught the bug if you wrote assembly instead of C. But the C programmer still released much better software than you faster. By the time you shipped v1 in assembly, the C program has already iterated 100 times and found product market fit.

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gzread 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Casey Muratori says that every programmer should understand how computers work and if you don't understand how computers work you can't be a good programmer.

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aurareturn 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I might not be a good programmer but I've been a very productive one.

Someone who is good at writing code isn't always good at making money.

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gzread an hour ago | parent [-]

AI slop books made more money than JK Rowling, too.

	▲	aurareturn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe in the future, yea. Most likely not because creating books is much easier now but total reading time can't increase nearly as fast. More books chasing the same amount of reading time.