Binary and/or hexadecimal, %!@#, do you speak it? 🤖

As we get AI to write more of our code, we may need to learn how to read its more unique way of representing solutions that aren't exactly human-friendly.

Hi everybody - I’ve been using AI to more increasingly write code for things that I would have normally written manually. For example, I recently had it generate some JavaScript as part of a simple permissions system for a user sign-in:

const PERMISSIONS = {
  READ:     1 << 0, // 0001 => 1
  WRITE:    1 << 1, // 0010 => 2
  EXECUTE:  1 << 2, // 0100 => …