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The article mentions https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... wh
by p0w3n3d 2y ago
The article mentions https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a... which is an opening article for me. TBH I was always sure I was supposed to go into details, but with more and more people around me starting to operate only in high-level abstractions, I started to doubt this.
Meanwhile, the abstractions ARE leaky, and I NEED to and SHOULD understand the underlying UNIX filesystem because it IS different from the Windows filesystem. Should know the inner workings of my PostgreSQL RDBMS rather than relying only on hibernate. And so on.
Last but not least, I just realised that it is impossible to write code in an unknown-to-me framework using LLM, because sooner or later I will need to fix the problems that arise exactly by going deeper into the inner workings.