Comment by Wowfunhappy
Comment by Wowfunhappy a day ago
I'm not sure whether I agree with GP, but I think you may be misinterpreting their point. I can have an understanding of CPUs in general without knowing individual instructions, and I do think knowing about things like CPU cache is useful even when writing e.g. Python.
Sure, but the comment being worried about a lack of “flexing your muscles” is perfectly countered by moving up an abstraction layer then, as you don’t have to constantly get into the weeds of coding to maintain an understanding _in general_ without knowing individual instructions.