A developer reflects on how the tooling ecosystem has changed drastically over the course of a career, drawing parallels between transitions from assembly to C, and C to C++. The key insight is that each generation of technology builds on the previous one, and understanding lower-level foundations helps for a while before becoming less necessary. The conversation touches on whether being a developer today is harder, simpler, or just differently challenging compared to earlier eras.
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