The pre-2023 abstractions that power the Internet and have made many people rich are the sweet spot.

You have to understand some of the system, and saying that if no one understands the whole system anyway we can give up all understanding is a fallacy.

Even for a programming language that is criticized for a permissive spec like C you can write a formally verified compiler, CompCert. Good luck doing that for your agentic workflow with natural language input.

Citing a few manic posts from influencers does not change that.