I'm talking about trends , not absolutes(not a sith). The share of programmers who are doing high level stuff(understanding users and encoding that ) versus th

I'm talking about trends , not absolutes(not a sith). The share of programmers who are doing high level stuff(understanding users and encoding that ) versus those who optimize the low-level is always growing. Maybe it's ~90% today , vs less than 10% in the early years of computing when every byte counted and systems were less complex. > Low-level optimizations are the least automated process I can think of. And compilers automate low-level optimizations every day.