just another abstraction

in the beginning we wrote machine code: raw binary instructions fed directly to the cpu.

assembly was the first abstraction. it gave us a set of human-readable cpu instructions that assemblers convert into machine code. we still managed every register, memory address, and clock cycle.

then came compiled languages like c and fortran, allowing us to write something that looked like math and logic while a compiler translates it down to assembly for us. we no longer thought about opcodes or registers but we still manually allocated and freed memory.

soon enough higher-level languages, like java and python, took that off our plate too. garbage collectors manage memory, we just had to write and run the code.

now even that is handled for us. coding agents compile intent into running software. we no longer need to memorize libraries, functions, or syntax.

the only programming language is natural language. another layer of tooling has arrived and taken over more of the minutiae, giving us more time to think about which problems to solve.

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