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I’m becoming deeply concerned by the explosion of growth in high level software, with a slow abandonment of low level engineering.

I’ve been in tech for as long as I can remember, and I don’t remember having the issues I have now, nor in this number. Every sentence is beginning to end with “if it works.”
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Kc 2y ago

Every time some complexity (of a system or language) is abstracted away, we get a result that is easier to handle in "most" cases, but a lot harder to understand in edge cases. Modern languages and software usually are abstraction of abstractions of abstractions... So it's no wonder it grows in size, and mostly not even linear.

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Justin Nakamoto-San ☑️ 2y ago

I think one of the first employees at Google solved an early problem they had with RAM, and it proved to be hard to track down. They could not have solved it without the lower level understanding.