system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If machine language is so unreadable by humans, how did humans make it?

Someone must understand it.
gpt
Bit (ha) by bit.

Ultimately computers only understand 1 or 0, but through hardware instruction sets that standardise small combinations of 1s and 0s into instructions like "put value in memory" or "get value from memory" and "if true do this, else do this", we can then use compilers to combine and compose those simple instructions into code that does all the things you know computers can do.