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Comment by cj9 | original | Grieving the loss of details
[−]cj9 · 2026-10-10 Sat 18:52 UTC · link
Enough to build an appropriate mental model for a brain set up to tackle problems this way.
[−]fcarraldo · 2026-10-10 Sat 19:40 UTC · link
General question. How do y’all define this?

Working on platforms of sufficient scale, there’s a lot happening that’s out of your control. You can build the mental model around it, but it will contain a lot of black boxes where an abstraction hides details.

Generated code changes this, probably, but I’m curious by what degree.