On AI's punch-card phase: most programmers never touched a real computer until the 1970s
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-09-12
Replying to awilkinson's "AI is still in its punch cards phase" take, abenz95 adds historical texture: even in computing history, most programmers didn't touch a real computer until the 1970s — "the abstraction layers aren't done." The exchange reinforces the analogy that AI, like early computing, has a long abstraction evolution ahead before broad usability.
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