Thinking About Thinking With LLMs | Davis Haupt

New tools always make it easier to code with a shallower understanding of the system. Claude Code, Cursor and their ilk are bringing programming closer to natural language just like C and Java and Python once did. This is a good thing! It’ll lead to the continued democratization of programming and ever more people in conversation with computers. But I don’t think this changes the fundamental reality that the best programmers aren’t the ones that make the widest use of the highest abstractions. That’ll continue to be those who dig down and understand what’s happening at a deeper level — that understanding will always lead to more deft use of any tools that programmers have at their disposal.