Programming as “just math”. I got wrapped up sitting there memorizing ins and outs of each language and the ecosystem, others compositions in the form of Apach

Programming as “just math”. I got wrapped up sitting there memorizing ins and outs of each language and the ecosystem, others compositions in the form of Apache and the like. Now it seems bizarre we’d think of it as anything but add, div, compare of electrical state in a memory address. It’s not a 1:1 machine translation but it’s the abstraction that’s made me most productive. A whole lot of baggage comes with software that I’m hopeful ML libraries will allow us to retire. Currently wrapping UI around OpenCV to make my own “Photoshop”, for example. I really can’t see any other way of approaching programming as anything but a waste of human agency. There are social problems we could be focused on if we were less focused on butts in chairs cranking out code.