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Now you've also got within an individual, the kind of the drills that you're

by force, by necessity, you're continuing to carry out these drills in the course of your operations.

Those are keeping you sharp to some extent.

And then if you're delegating those out, there's a certain atrophy.

I think that works.

So for many people, the progress of their career possibly includes moving up into this more managerial role.

And if that's the case, you can continue to be quite effective.

even if your kind of low-level coding skills atrophy, I think that's kind of actually fine.

Like many coding managers, the first year or two of being primarily a manager, they're kind of lamenting, oh, they don't let me write code anymore.

I've met lots of people like that.

And then they kind of find their feet as a manager and then actually become really effective as a consultant with this kind of more high-level vision.

So as an individual, it's maybe okay if you've kind of got off the ground.

But as a society, it's maybe harmful then.

Yeah, hardly anyone writes assembly.

Very few people write C, you know, and this was at one time considered a high-level programming language.

So yeah, there's this progression there.

It's kind of, hmm, is it the same or is it analogous?

In some sense, you could say it's literally the same, where now we're programming in English, and this is the highest level of all, and that's being translated into this, I mean, in practice, maybe kind of intermediate-level programming language like Python, which is kind of, again, historically being considered a very high-level programming language.

And then under the hood, maybe that's being transpiled into CPython or something, and that's being turned into assembly.

So there's this kind of stack.