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# Do we really know how all this works?
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/do-we-really-know-how-all-this-works/
- Published: 2026-11-09T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T15:00:01.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
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Sean Heber: [Where are we going?](https://bigzaphod.com/blog/where-are-we-going/?ref=birchtree.me)

> I don’t think anyone knows how anything works anymore. Not really. The scale exceeds human comprehension.

I do think that people overestimate how much those working on large codebases knew how everything worked before, but yes, it is a bit of an interesting place we're heading where. You know what the code does, but how it does it? Well, that's a bit of a mystery.