Yes and I’m sure that car mechanics are also tsk tsking about everyone that drives a car doesn’t know how to fix one. I’m sure they also thing that cars have be

Yes and I’m sure that car mechanics are also tsk tsking about everyone that drives a car doesn’t know how to fix one. I’m sure they also thing that cars have been “dumbed down”. I’ve been programming for a long time (since doing assembly in the 80s). My second job out of college was for a small company where I was a developer and also had to manage a SAN, a dozen computers that ran jobs, mail servers, ftp servers, MySQL and SQL Servers, messaging servers (MQSeries, MSMQ) etc. Now I can just write some yaml or HCL and spin up an entire “server room”. I don’t wax poetically to juniors who never have to go through that and I even encourage them to use an even higher level of abstraction - the CDK that allows you to use code to create the yaml. Ob Disclaimers: yes I work at AWS now (ProServe). 2nd disclaimer: while the CDK creates CloudFormation, Hashicorp ported it to work with Terraform and is cross platform.