It's very similar now, you have to surf a swell of selective ignorance that is (feels?) less reliable than the ignorance that one adopts when using a dependency one hasn't read and understood the source code for.

One must be conversant in abstractions that are themselves ephemeral and half hallucinated. It's a question of what to cling to, what to elevate beyond possible hallucinated rubbish. At some level it's a much faster version of the meastspace process and it can be extermely emotionally uncomfortable and anarchic to many.