My interpretation is that there is a missing part and the full sentence should be "the majority doesn't miss assembly programming and the majority is obviously right".
Moreover, when there is a big majority group but also a well-known minority (and everyone knows there is one in this case), saying "nobody does the thing that minority does" is not a simple generalization, it's devalueing the minority opinion.
Which is super offensive, and this is my potentially hot take, but whatever: the "high level" people who are so disgusted by looking under the hood, are only being able to deliver value thanks to those who build the libraries, hairy OSes and the messy hardware, and actually understand how all this stuff works.
And what triggers me is that now those people look down upon the low level people even more, especially with LLMs exploiting the blood and sweat that we put into building stuff.
Nobody looks down on low level people. I can assure you that. But they are such a minority that common vernacular simply doesn't refer to them. That is a linguistic consequence of a practical reality; it is not a form of disrespect. In fact, most people respect low level people because it take much more skill and brain power to operate in that realm.
But LLMs are making a lot of your skillset redundant. That is ALSO a stark reality.
Maybe, so far it's the other way around - my low level team grew 2x over last year, we still have openings that we can't fill, and the amount of work still grows faster than what we can handle.
LLMs don't help.
And OTOH, what got redundant was the skills of people glueing together high level component, because apparently even open source models can do that part, as libraries and frameworks do all the heavy lifting.
Moreover, when there is a big majority group but also a well-known minority (and everyone knows there is one in this case), saying "nobody does the thing that minority does" is not a simple generalization, it's devalueing the minority opinion.
Which is super offensive, and this is my potentially hot take, but whatever: the "high level" people who are so disgusted by looking under the hood, are only being able to deliver value thanks to those who build the libraries, hairy OSes and the messy hardware, and actually understand how all this stuff works.
And what triggers me is that now those people look down upon the low level people even more, especially with LLMs exploiting the blood and sweat that we put into building stuff.
It's abhorrent.