Hand-coding machine code while 'compilers aren't good enough to replace me'
tekbog · x · 2026-09-26
A one-line satirical take maps today's programmer anxiety about AI coding tools onto history: a man typing machine code by hand insists compilers aren't good enough to replace him, trembling over what he'll do next.
The joke lands because resisting higher abstractions has never been a durable moat—the real question is where you sit once the abstraction layer moves up.
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