[jjice]

I interpreted those things being listed as individual items in a list, not one continuous thing, so I assume the "low level programming" is it's own task.

Also, I think a certain level of cloud agnosticism is possible. A lot of things like App Engine-esque services and FaaS can be boiled down to a core subset that can be agnostic. Once you get into managed queues and such, then you start losing some agnosticism for sure.