The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Native Compute

To be optimistic, we could also view this as a great success: enough abstractions have been built that cloud people can get along just fine even if their hardware knowledge barely outstrips their knowledge of how npn transistors work.

(Bob Widlar lamenting the then-contemporary decline of analogue knowledge among EE's: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp... )