Comment by AndrewKemendo
20 hours ago
Every technical person has been complaining about this for the entire history of computer programming
Unless you’re writing literal memory instructions then you’re operating on between 4 and 10 levels of abstraction already as an engineer
It has never been tractable for humans to program a series of switches without incredible number of abstractions
The vast majority of programmers never understood how computers work to begin with
People keep making this argument, but the jump to LLM driven development is such a conceptually different thing than any previous abstraction
This is true, though the people that actually push the field forward do know enough about every level of abstraction to get the job done. Making something (very important) horrible just to rush to market can be a pretty big progress blocker.
Jensen is someone I trust to understand the business side and some of those lower technical layers, so I'm not too concerned.
And if you're writing machine code directly, you're still relying on about ten layers of abstraction that the wizards at the chip design firms have built for you.