[hsjsbeebue]

There are almost no programmers today (you need to do malloc and low level sys calls in C to be considered a programmer).

[immibis]

That's right. We invented programming AI a very long time ago, and called it an "assembler". All you had to do was tell the assembler what kind of program you wanted, and it would do the programming work for you!

Then we invented another AI to tell the assembler what kind of program you wanted, and called it a "compiler". All you had to do was tell the compiler what kind of program you wanted it to tell the assembler you wanted, and it would do all the not-exactly-programming work for you!

And so on...

[immibis]

P.S. Visual Basic with its GUI designer was a quite effective way to rapidly build apps of questionable quality but great business value. Somebody should bring that paradigm back.

[throwaway11460]

I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't write your own syscall firmware code in assembly.

[rmbyrro]

I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't perfurate your own punch cards.