It’s a tool that could make taking the leap into assembly code just that little bit easier. For another taste of bare metal coding, check out [Ben Jojo]’s discussion of x86 bootloaders.

Earlier this year, scientists were able to crack the code that governs the self-assembly of viruses to encode new messages that help the human body.

Assembly was also in the news recently when the "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules" -- written in assembly -- was posted to GitHub. While ...

The innovation of AlphaDev is that it improves how the structure of a working assembly program is represented in the AI code. That allows its reward system to better narrow down the possibilities.