[huijzer]

Makes sense. I always intuitively understood that going from for example electronic engineering to computer science is probably easier than the other way around, but this article makes a great point. Without some low-level knowledge, you do not fully understand the higher level. Then you can only parrot the higher level (I’m also looking at you here LLM).

[flyingcircus3]

I'll go you one further. Many Electrical Engineers who learn about the progression of transistors, logic gates, flip-flops, registers, arithmetic logic units, central processing units, instructions, and so on, have such a profound epiphany about how all complex systems are merely collections of less complex systems working in concert, that they can't help but to see the rest of the world through that same lens, at all times.