[AmericanChopper]

I know exactly how a CPU works, but I can’t say I ever spend much time thinking about that while I’m writing code. Thinking about low level details is often useful, but I can’t say I sit there pondering logic gates while trying to solve programming problems very often.

[Brian_K_White]

You probably spend exactly the right amount of time, which is a tiny bit, many times a day, unconsciously.