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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by IgorPartola on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:00PM (#47819051)
Yeah I am worried about skill atrophy too. Everyone uses a compiler these days instead of writing assembly. Like who the heck is going to do all the work when people forget how to use the low level tools and a compiler has a bug or something?

And don’t get me started on memory management. Nobody even knows how to use malloc(), let alone brk()/mmap(). Everything is relying on automatic memory management.

I mean when was the last time you actually used your magnetized needle? I know I am pretty rusty with mine.

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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:03PM (#47819075)
> an LLM is exactly like a compiler if a compiler was a black box hosted in a proprietary cloud and metered per symbol

Yeah, exactly.

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Re:Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45% by techpression on Saturday April 18, 2026 @04:27PM (#47819261)
Snark aside, this is an actual problem for a lot of developers in varying degrees, not understand anything about the layers below make for terrible layers above in very many situations.
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