[dragonwriter]

> The coming age of people with no understanding of what running code actually means, no idea how hardware/close to hardware systems behave deep down, is going to be fabulous, and full of wasted computing.

Just like now is to people who were programming in the 1990s, or the 1990s to people who were programming in the 1970s.

[pmlnr]

Partially agreed; on the other hand, Arduinos & PIC helped a lot to get, say, hardware IRQs, something that is quite heavily abstracted away in general computing.