She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969
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Also worth remembering: The Apollo guidance computer had less compute power than a USB charger. That thing sent us to the moon. https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a30916315/usb-c-charger-apollo-11-computer/
The article got Moore's Law wrong. It states that areal density doubles about every 18 months (as I remember it) which tl;dr approximates "more compute power" indirectly. Also it's not true any more but again that's no big deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law?wprov=sfla1