It is interesting how you believed you knew how your PC worked. Did you look at the microcode in the microprocessor? We all accept a black box at some level. We don't feel a need to dismantle the car engine before driving to work.

At 66 I am far more excited about solving problems with AI than I ever was with coding. I can analyse old inquest files, detailed research papers and ask it to create programs as a result. I can get them to work with some effort - by asking other AI to solve the problems in the code. you.com tells me that AI can scan and understand a detailed research paper in seconds. I might get to the end of the title in that time.

AI tells me this is Microcode in a microprocessor:

LOAD A // Load the value from register A into the ALU

LOAD B // Load the value from register B into the ALU

ADD // Perform the addition operation

STORE C // Store the result in register C

It looks similar to Assembly language I was trained on back in the day...