Wait a second, its layers all the way down

Exactly, I'm over 50 and I remember all the complaints about script kiddies who looked at windows bat files as opposed to all the 'real programmers' who knew C and Assembly and used VIM and linux (which is still going strong)

(ie https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/378:_Real_Program...)

but now also as an AI engineer we have to learn how harnesses, sys prompts, various models, tokens LLMs etc all work so a new abstraction is born..

layers changes, nerds and ultra-specialist nerds will remain

nostaliga is always for the last layer- the one you remembered from your teens and 20s.