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Shall we be concerned that not many are even able to read assembler code? I'm not talking about reading machine code, produced by the assembler, but the assembler code itself.

Machine code was hard, but one could make it pretty efficient. Not efficiently.

Assembler was still pretty performant, for today's standard it is tip top.

So, moving on 10, 20 years from now, can someone read c++? Even html?

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I think whoever is responsible for the correct operation of a software system will still need to read something that precisely describes the behaviours that they care about.

Today, for most devs, thats the code. We usually don't need to look at compiled output, because the code is enough. We can't just look at the prompts, because they aren't precise enough.

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