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by jbandela1 858 days ago
I don’t think you’re naive.

Providing detailed instructions to computers to accomplish human/business objectives is the hard part about being a programmer.

But the level of abstraction has been increasing. It started as physically flipping switches then machine code then assembly then structured programming then object oriented programming and so on.

I remember during the 1990s with objects and VB custom controls people were talking that businesses would just hire a bunch of high school students to work part time just snapping components together like Legos.