It still kind of blows my mind that basically all this reduces to assembly and then machine language. I’m of the age where my first computing experiences were

It still kind of blows my mind that basically all this reduces to assembly and then machine language. I’m of the age where my first computing experiences were on green screens, PET computers, networked VAX machines at the colleges my parents taught at and so on. I was aware of what assembly was back then, and the idea that the game or basic business program I was using was just a sequence of MOVE ADD eax and so on. I just couldn’t quite get how you could be smart enough to use that to something useful. And everything we see today is basically just a bunch of moves and adds and pokes a layer or three below the surface.