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I think that work done at a higher level of abstraction yields much higher productivity, and if you haven't worked with assembly compare working in Python without packages or plain-old-javascript vs. node or react. Our language abstractions improve expression (if they're done right) and make it easier to turn concepts into actions...

But! That isn't even the part I care about. Once you get into the world you'll find that maintenance and improvement, rather than greenfield development, is the majority of what you'll be doing and that's where this difference really pays off. Higher level languages and programming tools have let us comprehend, inspect and refactor logic with much greater ease, and that's where the improvement hits the most. Coincidentally, that's also what whoever pays you will actually care about.