> and it never will be The only thing I’m certain of is that you’re highly overconfident. I’m sure plenty of assembly gurus said the same of the first compile

> and it never will be The only thing I’m certain of is that you’re highly overconfident. I’m sure plenty of assembly gurus said the same of the first compilers. > because it's not an abstraction This just seems like a category error. A human is not an abstraction, yet they write code and produce value. An IDE is a tool not an abstraction, yet they make humans more productive. When I talk about moving up the levels of abstraction I mean: taking on more abstract/less-concrete tasks. Instead of “please wire up login for our new prototype” it might be “please make the prototype fully production-ready, figure out what is needed” or even “please ship a new product to meet customer X’s need”.