Just admit that you were wrong instead of this doubling down nonsense. LLMs are amazing at optimizing memory utilization. They have no problem obsessing over fitting as much data as possible onto a single cache line and micro benchmarking cache hits.
This seems like way too caustic of a reaction, OP is correct.
If you actually know what you're doing in $language, and you know how $language wants to emit the assembly or whatever, there's no huge advantage to just programming directly in assembly.
Seems like author’s main focus recently is AI and agents unsurprisingly, hence the suspicion. But it seems like he has a backgrounded in relevant fields in the past.
The author is one of the most knowledgeable people about performance there is