alt Hacker News"software engineers are going to have to get better at thinking in larger abstractions" ........Math was first on my list. I don't know how else to say that.
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> I don't know how else to say that.
Yep, exactly. The failure to realize that you mean different things when talking about "larger abstractions" is exactly the kind of miscommunication that software people will need to navigate better in the future.
Ah, I think “Math” as a single word on its means many different things to many different people, I didn’t interpret in quite the same way. But I see what you mean.
I’m not sure that my colleagues who I think of as “good at math” and “good at thinking in larger abstractions” are necessarily the same ones, but there’s definitely a lot of overlap.
Computer science is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced maths.
The AI can already do that part.
The abstraction that matters going forward, is understanding why the abstraction chosen by the AI does or doesn't match the one needed by the customer's "big picture".
The AI is a bit too self-congratulatory in that regard, even if it can sometimes spot its own mistakes.