This is a tangent but yesterday I was just pondering the abstraction layer from machine code to assembly lexers to compilers to interpreted languages. Having been lucky enough to be born at a time to witness these shifts, it's so easy to forget what we used to think was normal.

The thought came to me when testing the new Jules agentic coding platform. It occured to me that we are just in another abstraction cycle, but like those before, it's so hard to see the shift when everything is shifting.

My conclusion? There will be non-AI coders, but they will be as rare as C programmers before we realize it.