Absolutely. I don't hand-create machine code. I don't write assembly. I write in the highest-level language that still lets me fully specify everything I car

Absolutely. I don't hand-create machine code. I don't write assembly. I write in the highest-level language that still lets me fully specify everything I care about, and then all of the lower levels of code generation are completely automated. Programmers have always automated programming jobs as much as possible.