[ankushnarula]

Every time we standardize mediating layers of leaky abstractions we are creating novel territory that accrues side-effects. Once there’s enough people working to manage these side effects, experts, products and services will emerge to promote the legitimacy of this new layer. There have been many attempts to solve this by revisiting first principles, but most of us are oblivious and/or too vested in one of these layers or too averse to disruptive changes. Hence, when we run up against bottlenecks and side effects we deploy more leaky abstractions and the cycle continues.