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As computing tools advance, humans do less low-level programming work; for example, compilers generate assembly code from higher-level languages, so programmers no longer write assembly directly in many cases.
Andrej Karpathy · Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · 17 Oct 2025
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“else sometimes and what's going on is that the human is progressively doing a bit less and less of the low-level stuff for example we're not writing the assembly code because we have compilers”
“like compilers will take my high-level language in C and write the assembly code so we're abstracting ourselves very very slowly and there's this what I call autonomy slider of like more and more stuff is automated of the stuff that can be automated at any point in time and we're doing a bit less and less and raising ourselves in the layer abstraction over the automation”Play from 38:22Report a misattribution
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