As it stands today, probably. Whether that actually has negative consequences is the more interesting question I think. Higher level languages collapsed unders

As it stands today, probably. Whether that actually has negative consequences is the more interesting question I think. Higher level languages collapsed understanding of CPU architecture and assembly level programming. But as a result, we are writing more programs, not fewer, since we're operating at a layer of abstraction that matches closer to human thought process than what is dictated by the mechanisms of the underlying machine.