[ragle]

I wonder about this too - and also wonder what the difference of order is between the historical shifts you mention and the one we're seeing now (or will see soon).

Is it 10 times the "abstracting away complexity and understanding"? 100, 1000, [...]?

This seems important.

There must be some threshold beyond which (assuming most new developers are learning using these tools) fundamental ability to understand how the machine works and thus ability to "dive in and figure things out" when something goes wrong is pretty much completely lost.

[TOGoS]

> There must be some threshold beyond which (assuming most new developers are learning using these tools) fundamental ability to understand how the machine works and thus ability to "dive in and figure things out" when something goes wrong is pretty much completely lost.

For me this happened when working on some Spring Boot codebase thrown together by people who obviously had no idea what they were doing (which maybe is the point of Spring Boot; it seems to encourage slopping a bunch of annotations together in the hope that it will do something useful). I used to be able to fix things when they went wrong, but this thing is just so mysterious and broken in such ridiculous ways that I can never seem to get to the bottom of it,