2 points | by rkwap 11 hours ago ago
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A new wave of abstraction is reshaping software engineering. Each pushed machine code closer to humans or made software easy to build:
Assembly → C
C → Python/Ruby
Manual memory mgmt → GC
Bare metal → VMs → Containers → Kubernetes
jQuery → React/Next.js
PHP+HTML → Web Frameworks like Rails/Django/Express
On-prem infra → AWS → Serverless
And now, we’re seeing AI builders on top of the app layer.
Personally, I started with ChatGPT as “Google++”, then Claude Code → OpenAI Codex → and now I’m again trying Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Not sure where this abstraction wave ends. Feels like we’re heading to a point where software writes itself - no humans needed.
and this is the future they’re pushing toward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y
A new wave of abstraction is reshaping software engineering. Each pushed machine code closer to humans or made software easy to build:
Assembly → C
C → Python/Ruby
Manual memory mgmt → GC
Bare metal → VMs → Containers → Kubernetes
jQuery → React/Next.js
PHP+HTML → Web Frameworks like Rails/Django/Express
On-prem infra → AWS → Serverless
And now, we’re seeing AI builders on top of the app layer.
Personally, I started with ChatGPT as “Google++”, then Claude Code → OpenAI Codex → and now I’m again trying Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Not sure where this abstraction wave ends. Feels like we’re heading to a point where software writes itself - no humans needed.
and this is the future they’re pushing toward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y