domain experts tired of doing busywork they understand well enough create an abstraction to get rid of it
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I call it the rails problem because I love this example and think it's hilarious but it's basically the history of programming languages
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people used to working in hex saw assembly languages as an extravagance that would sissify the next generation of programmers, people working in assembly said same of compiled langs, etc
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personally I think anyone who doesn't know at least one level down from where they're working is reckless bordering on dangerous
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webdevs should know enough C/C++ to have intuitions about how their languages are likely implemented and be able to read the implementations if needed, C devs should know their archs' assemblies, etc
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this is perfectly reasonable to demand of ppl imo, expecting everyone to know "everything" under them (chip fab? EE?) probably isn't
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but anyway the real issue is once more "programming" shifts from writing compiled/interpreted languages to offloading more work to machine learning frameworks they have zero understanding of the math behind
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where they have some inputs and some desired outputs and as far as they know everything that happens in between is a magic black box because hackernews told them they don't need to know linear algebra
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and these people are easily >90% of the field lol
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sorry for writing a blog post lol anyway the paradox is standards are both higher than most people can achieve and much lower than they should be because most people in the industry are worse than useless
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