alt Hacker Newshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641382
AI generation isn't an abstraction because you have to wrestle with the nitty-grittys of the output.
And that output is what you retain.
You can't clone someone's repository of nothing but prompts and rebuild from scratch.
Abstraction means that I trust the toolchains so much that I think of the source code as the software, and in the right kind of environment/ecosystem such as open source distros, I can actually ship that to the downstream users as my product.
Abstractions are based on very detailed and rigid logical contracts.
Why would you link to a four month old HN thread with no comments, instead of the link in the HN thread? What does that add other than an extra click?