Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack

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The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path. There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg ! ) don’t work at that primitive level now. AI is making many other programming skills much less critical.

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