What Steve Yegge thinks about compilers

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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11 Mar 2026

Our readingDeep compiler knowledge is still interesting, but it is no longer useful to a working engineer in any meaningful sense.

Their wordsI had a lot of my own ego and identity wrapped up in my sort of compiler background. It's all It's interesting, right? But it's it's not useful in any meaningful sense anymore.

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