Here -
The Law of Leaky Abstractions - Joel on Software
...is an interesting article about the perils of writing computer software using tools designed to make it quicker and easier. But making it quicker and easier
abstracts away what is really going on under the hood so that when the abstraction is wrong/leaky the coder who has never written code to the "bare-metal" (as older coders have) is often completely lost.
It seems to me that cockpit automation tends to "abstract away" the actual task of flying the aircraft, with not always happy results when the abstraction breaks down.
Quite an interesting parallel I thought....
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