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Really good coders (like him) are better.

Mediocre ones … maybe not so much.

When I worked for a Japanese optical company, we had a Japanese engineer, who was a whiz. I remember him coming over from Japan, and fixing some really hairy communication bus issues. He actually quit the company, a bit after that, at a very young age, and was hired back as a contractor; which was unheard of, in those days.

He was still working for them, as a remote contractor, at least 25 years later. He was always on the “tiger teams.”

He did awesome assembly. I remember when the PowerPC came out, and “Assembly Considered Harmful,” was the conventional wisdom, because of pipelining, out-of-order instructions, and precaching, and all that.

His assembly consistently blew the doors off anything the compiler did. Like, by orders of magnitude.






+1000. "Human coders are still better than LLMs" is a hot take. "Antirez is still better than LLMs" is axiomatic ;-)



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