It's not like the machines are just /learning/ how to do low level stuff. People are doing deliberate research, modifying them, and testing them to make that happen.
Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of.
I'm talking about trends , not absolutes(not a sith).
The share of programmers who are doing high level stuff(understanding users and encoding that ) versus those who optimize the low-level is always growing.
Maybe it's ~90% today , vs less than 10% in the early years of computing when every byte counted and systems were less complex.
> Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of.
And compilers automate low-level optimizations every day.
Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of.