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by rawmahn 35 days ago
But do we need the level of understanding to be that deep? If you know how your system works overall, how components interact, what interfaces are exposing/consuming, what security, performance implications are there, what data structures carry around... If you have the understanding of that, do you really need to know the actual implementation details? Maybe taking the perspective of a system/product architect is enough?

Having said that, if you want to know if an engineer really gave it a thought before having the AI do the work - you can ask things like "why did you decide to design it like this" - in person

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Yea, isn't a lot of software already developed like this? I doubt the lead developers of Chrome know the implementation details of every component of chrome. They know the high level architecture and leave a lot of the specific implementation to various teams.