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> Bottom line, you don't see too many assembly language developers anymore.

And where you do, no LLM is going to replace them because they are working in the dark mines where no compiler has seen and the optimizations they are doing involve arcane lore about the mysteries of some Intel engineer's mind while one or both of them are on a drug fueled alcoholic deep dive.

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Out of curiosity, who does assembly language programming these days? Back in the 90s the compilers had learned all our best tricks. Now with multiple instruction pipelines and out-of-order instruction processing and registers to be managed, can humans still write better optimized assembly than a compiler? Is the juice worth that squeeze?

I can see people still learning assembly in a pedagogical setting, but not in a production setting. I'd be interested to hear otherwise.

Assembly is still relatively popular in the spaces of very low level Operating System work, exploit engineering, and embedded systems where you need cycle-accurate timing.

ffmepg is famous for using asm. For exemple : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42041301

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