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I don’t like this narrative. Going from punch cards, to Assembly, to C and to dynamic languages all empowered the programmer with more expressive languages. I don’t believe going from Python to programming via code comments is the same deal.

It would be more like we still write asm but we have editors that let you write a little C code and then it spits out a paragraph of ‘reasonable’ asm that still has to be maintained.

>>eloisi+(OP)
That's roughly how I've seen experienced people work on high-performance code. I mean, they rarely maintain the generated assembly directly, but they do write code with the assembly it would generate in mind, and keeping the code generating comparable assembly over time is part of maintaining the performance-critical parts of the codebase.