> It's just that the actual manufacturing does not exist (or rather is done by compiler) Here’s the kicker though: The part that is done by compilers used to b

> It's just that the actual manufacturing does not exist (or rather is done by compiler) Here’s the kicker though: The part that is done by compilers used to be the bulk of software engineering. In his Art and Science book Hamming talks about how programmers rejected the idea of even just automated address assignment. They took great pride in manually managing absolute addressing. Only a sissy who doesn’t know real programming would ever use something so silly as symbolic addressing, to say nothing of compiling from assembly. Ugh! Now we don’t even think about that. Too boring, too solved, too uncreative. There is a lot of engineering that we currently do, which is completely mechanical, mindless, and can be automated away.