Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

"We don't program in assembly anymore," she said. "Most of us don't even program in C, and then you're kind of higher and higher layers of abstraction.

We have created an abstraction layer that can understand people talking and writing. Agentic coding is the compiling of a spoken language into a high-level programming language, be it JavaScript ...

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