[slackstation]

Why have everyone know all of 2M lines of code? Programming is about abstraction, knowing what a subsystem does, what it's responsible for should be adequate most of the time until you need to fix something inside it.

We aren't doctors, we just need the skills to figure things out and fix them quickly.

[khedoros1]

The system's more broad than deep, mostly. Lots of functionality covered, but for the most part, the abstractions aren't super-deep.

My point was that someone can ramp up quickly on a portion of the system and have a vague idea of other parts of it, but "mastering" it covers too much code to do it in a reasonable time. Each plugin introduces special cases for the data flow, and the plumbing for that ends up running through the whole system.