Leverage, Skills, and AI

When I was 13 or 14, I learned to code in Assembly Language for the 6502 processor that came with most of the personal computers of the time: the Ataris, Commodores, and Apples. Assembly Language is the set of mnemonics used to program the CPU, that are converted to machine language, the raw bytes that CPUs actually understand. I learned tricks to save a few bytes and machine cycles here and there—computers were pretty limited at the time. I knew about byte order, most-significant and least-s...