On: Hiring Developers: look for the ability to abstrac...

[rco8786]

I didn’t read the article, but what you described sounds a lot like...abstraction. Right down to using the word explicitly.

[s_ngularity → rco8786]

I think he's trying to get at the distinction between being able to think in abstractions versus choosing the correct abstraction for the problem at hand. The first is a prerequisite for the second, but the second is far more important.