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by sjg007 1502 days ago
Programming is an onion, it has many layers of abstraction layered on top of each other.

You can work at any level you want but it helps to understand how the onion peels.

In many senses there are programs that write programs and in that regard all of our jobs are automatable.

The higher levels are closer to "no codification" than the lower ones at this time. Remember when we had web developers writing HTML? Now it is JavaScript.

As you learn to code together APIs, use frameworks, take the time to peel the onion and learn how it all works.