[epalm]

It’s not possible for everyone to know everything. Almost no one knows how to fix their <insert technology here, cars for example>, but at some point in history the opposite was true. Abstractions make technology available to the masses.

However, too much abstraction, on a long enough timeline, where does it end? The blob-humans in Wall-E, where no one knows anything and everything is done for us?

I’ve definitely felt in the last ~10 years of my career that the tools and libraries I use in development contain “too much magic”.