Hmmm this is interesting, my background is industrial automation, where every day I would work with bits and bytes. But today and the last 10 or so years I have

Hmmm this is interesting, my background is industrial automation, where every day I would work with bits and bytes. But today and the last 10 or so years I have been building higher level software, machine data collection, web, db etc. I can honestly say not once have I had to deal with bits or bytes, I cannot think of an instance here I have needed the knowledge either. So I guess it’s not a requirement for software development today. But I still feel it’s important knowledge but can qualify why.