You are exhibiting traces of long term thinking.

This is not what founder culture is about.

I hope the ASI overlord will pardon me.

Yes. Because none of this bullshit matters. I’ve heard this mantra for 20 years now.

Smug face: “weeeell, how can you say you’re a real programmer if you use a compiler? You need write raw assembly”, “how can you call yourself reeeeal programmer if you don’t know your computer down to every register?”, “real programmurs do not use SO/Google” and all the rest of the crap. It is all nerds trying to make themselves feel good by inflating their ego with trivia that is not interesting to anyone.

Well, what do you know? I’m still in business, despite relying a lot on Google/SO, and still create solutions that fix real human problems.

If AI can make 9 to 5 more bearable for majority of people and provide value in terms less cognitive load, let’s fucking go then.

Common bullshit. Expert not realizing that even if they are capable of using these tools because they can - subconsciously in your case - verify them, it doesn't mean it helps non experts.

Touché. On this I agree with you, since I’ve started in different age.

I haven't written serious assembly since high school :)

But I'm 100% sure i have some "natural" neural connections based on those experiences and those help me even when doing high level languages.

By the way, I am using LLMs. They help until they don't. One real life example i'm hitting at work is they keep mixing couchdb and couchbase when you ask about features. Their training dataset doesn't seem to be large enough in that area.