Automation is a trade-off

A couple of years ago I wrote a post about abstractions . I’m revisiting it here with AI-assisted coding in mind, because I see similar issues arising. LLMs make it easier than ever to generate code, but when we look at what happens next, the picture becomes a little bit less clear. When you build an abstraction or automation intended for use by other people, you make a decision about what is valuable for them to know about , and what isn’t. In programming this is extraordinarily hard. Often we