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Abstractions are one thing, not putting any effort into learning is another. People worry about the latter.

Exactly. I'm not saying that you should go back to code in assembly. But, come on, you can surely dedicate 30 minutes of your time to read how a CPU works... Just have curiosity would be my advice

At the expense of what, though? That's 30 minutes not spent learning about the business, or talking to customers, or to your kids. Or watching the World Cup. Or reading Hacker News.

The extra 30 minutes will be spent chatting with the AI as if it's your best friend.

You may have to spend 4 hours in the future when something stops working and the AI can't fix it

i always hear this argument. and then those that proclaim it get stuck for a sprint trying to fit a square peg in a round hole

and then i get a ticket a month later because the customer reported the feature isn't working. all while they proclaim how much they care about the customer.

i'm not just talking about one person. i feel as if there's an archetype of programmer that thinks like this.

I'm not sure what archetype my comment makes me fall under, but my point is people spend time and effort learning about the things that are important to them. The things that are important to them aren't important to you and I'm saying that being interested in how a CPU actually works doesn't make you better or smarter than them being interested in how other parts of the business work.

>spend time and effort learning about the things that are important to them

But Earlier ...

>Or reading Hacker News.

Reading Hacker News is important to you?

it's not for you?

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