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by sn9 38 days ago
Everyone should Jimmy Koppel's post on what abstractions are and aren't: https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/03/abstraction-not-what-y...

Anyone claiming LLMs are an a higher level of abstraction are not using it in the way used by programmers and computer scientists.

They're usually conflating "delegation" and "abstraction", as if a junior developer is an abstraction.