Yeah, I remember when the lazy bastards started writing programs using compilers instead of learning assembly language. Now I don’t have a single colleague who can write assembly. There’s whole generations now who can’t code assembly. Most don’t even know what a register is. Hope Zig holds against this latest attempt to make everyone stupid.

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uncircle an hour ago | parent | next [-]

To add to the other commenters, loads of people don’t know assembly, which speaks to the quality of the average developer. The ones that still understand assembly to this day tend to be better developers, writing faster and more efficient code.

	▲	crysin 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'd be very surprised if the "average" developer across the board was in fact not just a JavaScript / TypeScript only developer. I have no expectations or really even hope that the average developer I work with has ever written a line of assembly.
	▲	DeathArrow 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>The ones that still understand assembly to this day tend to be better developers, writing faster and more efficient code. That is if you use something like C, C+=, Java, .NET, Go. With Javascript and Python I don't think knowing assembly would make any difference because it's hard to optimize the code in these languages for how the CPU and memory works.

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gls2ro 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Generating AI code/PR is not the same as using compilers because of at least two things:

- the scale of how much and how fast you can generate code with AI vs how fast can you write code for compiler

- the mental model of what is being generated and how much the contributor understands and owns the generated code

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wtetzner 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Using an LLM isn't analogous to using a higher level language.

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brabel 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

That’s funny because it’s exactly, literally the same. The difference is it’s not deterministic. That may be a problem but it’s still a higher level language, just a much higher level language than anything before.

	▲	xigoi 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The main difference is that the input to an LLM is in an ambiguous language.

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gertop 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Your analogy falls apart because the "lazy bastards" still knew how to program and understood the code they were working on.

Vide-coders often don't read, let alone understand, the code they send for PRs.