[mangamadaiyan]

> Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same?

Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI).

When you're dealing with a memory leak in production (yes, they can and do happen), or worse -- if you're dealing with a drop in performance -- good luck with the vibe debugging.

Maybe there will be a time not too far off in the future when the stochastic cockatoos become sentient enough to do all of this by themselves, it's sure as hell not happening tomorrow.

Oh, and logarithmic tables were still a useful thing as late as forty odd years ago :)