Imagine your next work meeting.
Junior: We should fix the database perf problem with assembly
You: I don't follow. We're talking about a stuck SELECT. We just need an index
Junior: The database will be faster if we rewrite it in assembly. Omarchy is 17x faster because of assembly
You: Rewriting a database is a big project, and an assembly port wouldn't change data structures. Asymptotically, a full table scan...
Junior: DHH proved that coding agents work best in assembly. It's 17x faster than Rust. Should we be 17x slower than our competition?
VP: Junior has a point. We need to provide the best customer experience.
You: It'll take at least a year, even with AI help, to match PostgreSQL, and a perf win isn't guaranteed. Consider how Turso still has gaps in...
Junior: Skill issue. Models can one shot this. Labs used reinforced learning to make models write the best code.
VP: Great. On the roadmap for next week.
You: ... So, do we want to add that index in the meantime?
VP: Can you do it in assembly?
Getting tired of the cursed timeline with imbecilic tech influencers spreading their fiercely retarded takes and facing barely any pushback.
The most powerful AGI imaginable will still not be infallible. There's very obvious value in risk management, and splitting tasks into smaller ones is a natural and reliable way to manage risk.
Compilers enable task splitting. Instead of mapping your ideas directly onto the machine, they let you map them onto an expressive high-level language, with the remaining translation being an entirely separate and generally well-understood task.
But no, the Ruby on Snails guy would rather ignore risk management and burn a shitload of tokens dealing directly with bloated machine code instead of tidy high-level code suitable for reasoning, generation and consumption by LLMs.
Rust is a good prompt compilation target for the moment, but so is C++. And soon assembler. Then microcode. Myopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
I don't understand how I had passion to code Haskell when I was unemployed and I was doing for fun of it.
Now I have a job, and whenever in free time I think to do something, I always have in mind
1. How will it help me in job ?
2. How will it help me progression of my career
It takes immense determination & discipline to
1. Practice things out of work, to level up your career (up skilling)
2. Recreational or Hobby programming
Untill both areas collide with your d2d job.
Massive respect to those who can do this.
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