Post #2098195 · Elektrine

2026-02-22 11:16 UTC

@jwcph Funnily enough I wanted to kind of challenge you with saying that it's unlikely a programmer would be able to write a complex program "by hand" (using assembly) but... a sufficiently motivated programmer probably could. It would be an absolutely miserable experience, you'd have to invent a lot from the first principles, but in the end it's all system calls and the documentation is out there.

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@markhughes@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 13:00

@art_codesmith It wouldn't be miserable at all because good programmers relish and enjoy *problem solving*. It doesn't matter to me what level of tools I have available, so long as they are suited to the task in hand. I began hand coding assembly language, so I understand why people might think that's awful, but they aren't good engineers, or have lost sight of what good engineering is about because of the corporate and capitalist bullshit that corruptes everything that is good. @jwcph

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@fedithom@social.saarland 2026-02-22 16:52

@art_codesmith The point was, that vibe coders can't "code" at all without AI. And pre-AI, people already wrote software. So ... What was your point again? @jwcph

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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-04-20 17:56

@art_codesmith @jwcph it’d just be a busywork exercise, but a good refresher in overall planning and commenting. Given sufficient payment, I’d be in.

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