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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by tpm on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:36PM (#48164031)
> How can anyone understand software if you don’t know assembly?

I'm genuinely curious how someone who never wrote a program in assembly, or debugged a program machine instruction by machine instruction, can really understand how software works. My working hypothesis is most of them don't and actually it's fine because they don't need it.

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by marshray on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:10PM (#48164592)
"Assembly" is just another virtual machine instruction format sitting atop another, mildly better-hidden, pile of abstractions.
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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by tpm on Sunday May 17, 2026 @04:26AM (#48167053)
Depending on the particular processor.
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