I was able to find this comment, linking to a talk that coined(?) it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3609179

I was able to find this comment, linking to a talk that coined(?) it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091791 I guess in short you would say that learning a leaky simplifying abstraction actually increases the amount you have to learn.