A new wave of abstraction is reshaping software engineering. Each pushed machine code closer to humans or made software easy to build:

Assembly → C

C → Python/Ruby

Manual memory mgmt → GC

Bare metal → VMs → Containers → Kubernetes

jQuery → React/Next.js

PHP+HTML → Web Frameworks like Rails/Django/Express

On-prem infra → AWS → Serverless

And now, we’re seeing AI builders on top of the app layer.

Personally, I started with ChatGPT as “Google++”, then Claude Code → OpenAI Codex → and now I’m again trying Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Not sure where this abstraction wave ends. Feels like we’re heading to a point where software writes itself - no humans needed.

and this is the future they’re pushing toward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y