When Babbage designed the analytical engine (the first super mechanical calculator) you could provide it with punch cards (a program) and it would print the results.

🔴 Was the knowledge of the underlying arithmetic still needed?

🟢 Yes.

But the gap between the users and the results extended.

With the popularization of AI, the gap has never been that large.

And the knowledge of the underlying technology resides in the minds of very few technologists and - not for the first time - in the machines.

One day punch cards became machine code.

A series of 0 and 1.

And then high-level programming languages like Fortran and COBOL were born, making it easier.

Up until Python.

Up until Low code and No-Code.

Up until v0.

What if at some point AI will render these levels of complexity a nice to have for the average Joe?

What if that is already happening?