Ask HN: How did high level programming languages take over?

There's been a lot of opinions about how AI will impact software development. So far, we've seen impressive demos but the majority of devs don't use AI as a main part of their development flow. Regardless, I think we can draw some lessons from the part where a more productive development flow fundamentally changed the profession.

So this is a question to those of you who worked with low level languages and how did you experience the advent of high level ones? Let's not get into the nitty gritty definitions and focus on the pace of disruption and impact of the change on the industry.