Many can write faster asm than the compiler, yet don't. Why? (opens in new tab)

Published on December 30, 2025 8:40 AM GMT<br/><br/><p>There's a take I've seen going around, which goes approximately like this:</p><blockquote><p>It used to be the case that you had to write assembly to make computers do things, but then compilers came along. Now we have optimizing compilers, and those optimizing compilers can write assembly better than pretty much any human. Because of that, basically nobody writes assembly anymore. The same is about to be true of regular programming.</p><...