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by doublepg23 1236 days ago
> I imagine everyone draws the "you should know the details about how this works" line juuust below the level that they know about.

Yes this is usually what I see in tech spaces. I believe discovering _where_ that point is is largely moot and instead the focus should be on _having the ability_ to drop abstraction layers. Some day you’ll find a bug O(n!) and it may just be in a layer or two below.