>Could you imagine the pain of building an entire software product using only assembly code? That’s about how we felt designing hardware.

I've done both. What you called "pain" I called "fun". I started life as an electronic engineer but am now a software engineer and was very comfortable in both areas--including building from the TTL level. So I'm automatically suspicious of anything that calls such things painful.

My kneejerk reaction is "you've never done this professionally" but it's 3am where I'm at and can't watch the video right now.