alt Hacker Newsidk, I develop a lot of connected systems: Pis, Macs, lights, Google speakers, custom ESP32 boards. Understanding the capabilities and communication methods to pool them together is still very much part of what I do. If you're thinking one prompt -> production via AI, sure. But I don't think we are anywhere near that because there are so many moving pieces which still require human sign off: legal, design, QA, etc. To me, it just shift ups the level of understanding rather than replaces it.
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“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” — Edsger Dijkstra
I've thought a lot about this quote, and the best abstractions I use are absolutely this. I love array indexing as an abstraction, but in the back of my head I have pointer + index * size. I like having the kernel do memory mapping, but I know there's a buddy allocator and TLB cache there.
> To me, it just shift ups the level of understanding rather than replaces it.
This just sounds like convoluted way of saying you understanding much less than you would otherwise.