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AI is an impediment to learning high-level programming languages. High-level programming languages are an impediment to learning assembly. Assembly is an impediment to learning machine code. Machine code is an impediment to learning binary.

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The difference is that all of those other technologies have a rock solid abstraction layer. In my entire career, I have never encountered an assembler error [0], and have encountered 1 compiler error (excluding a niche compiler that I was actively developing). Current generative AI technology is fundamentally not that.

[0] which isn't that impressive, as I've done very little assembly.

Who needs to learn how to read anyways, isn't everything just audiobooks now amiright?

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