Grieving the Loss of Details

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I didn’t care about practicality, building useful programs, or writing code per se: all I wanted is to understand how the machine works. I found joy in writing a toy OS, counting cycles, and writing machine code by hand. If an LLM can analyze the code and explain pointer provenance to you and babysit you until you get it, there is little value in expertise. I cannot use LLMs this way.

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