People ask if I’m worried that AI will put me out of a job. My honest answer is no, not really. I’ve been here before — more than once. The first time the machine out-coded me. When I graduated in the 90s, assembly language was still a respectable skill. I wrote most of my code in C, but there was always that one tight loop or fiddly routine where a bit of hand-tuned assembler felt like wizardry. I was working in embedded systems, targeting a single CPU and we wanted every cycle to count. ...