Comment by makerofthings
11 hours ago
I totally see what you're saying, but to me this feels different. Compilation is a fairly mechanical and well understood process. The large language models aren't just compiling English to assembler via your chosen language, they try and guess what you want, they add extra bits you didn't ask for, they're doing some of your solution thinking for you. That feels like more than just abstraction to me.
I think it's still abstraction by definition, but you're right in that it's a much larger single leap than in the past.
> it's still abstraction by definition
I dislike arguing semantics but I bet it's not an abstraction by most engineers' definition of the word.
If this is true then a PMs jira tickets are an abstraction over an engineers code. It's not necessarily wrong by some interpretations but is not how the majority of engineers would define the word.