The law of leaky abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time.” Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
old article, but had a lot of fun reading. abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning..
ChatGPT4 and other AI tools are sort of same I think. Although they also do save time some time learning by being a high-class personal tutor that answers my flood of questions without being irritated.
