Did it feel bad when you switched abstraction level? Going to agent AI tools feels horrible, especially with how it is used these days.

Like, it is not that I hate AI tools, I just hate how most people are using them...

I can't imagine going to punch cards to, well, anything would feel anything but great. But going from assembly to C I can see how a programmer could struggle with their coworkers not checking the outputted CPU instructions for performance problems and compiler optimizations that generate unintelligible assembly.

But even then all those changes were deterministic (at least to the compiler version), unlike AI.