> and it never will be

The only thing I’m certain of is that you’re highly overconfident.

I’m sure plenty of assembly gurus said the same of the first compilers.

> because it's not an abstraction

This just seems like a category error. A human is not an abstraction, yet they write code and produce value.

An IDE is a tool not an abstraction, yet they make humans more productive.

When I talk about moving up the levels of abstraction I mean: taking on more abstract/less-concrete tasks.

Instead of “please wire up login for our new prototype” it might be “please make the prototype fully production-ready, figure out what is needed” or even “please ship a new product to meet customer X’s need”.

>“please ship a new product to meet customer X’s need”

The customer would just ask the AI directly to meet their needs. They wouldn’t purchase the product from you.