It's ironic you're posting this on a site named Y Combinator. ;)
"The AMM article presents a useful initial framework for understanding how programmers might choose to think about computation. It correctly identifies that mental models matter more than either programming language theory or hardware details. But it assumes these models are fixed, independent entities that exist in tension with each other."
"The AMM article presents a useful initial framework for understanding how programmers might choose to think about computation. It correctly identifies that mental models matter more than either programming language theory or hardware details. But it assumes these models are fixed, independent entities that exist in tension with each other."
https://speakez.tech/blog/abstract-machine-model-paradox/