[ghaff]

Since you need to understand your programs at the deepest level I assume you write in assembly and don’t use third party libraries.

[zahlman]

There was an era when car owners were expected to be their own mechanics.

When that started going away, I wonder if the people who lamented the loss ever got hit with "I assume you fractionate your own petroleum".

"Deepest level" in GP presumably refers to the deepest level of the existing source code.

[tailspin2019]

> I wonder if the people who lamented the loss ever got hit with "I assume you fractionate your own petroleum".

Those were the days. Nothing like that delicious smell of crude oil vapour as the fractionation column warms up…

[archagon]

Layers of abstraction vs. predigested programming slop.