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Do we really know how all this works?

Sean Heber: Where are we going?

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.

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