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mpyneyesterday at 9:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Claude Code abstracts the API, so it should abstract this behavior as well, or educate the user about it.

Does mmap(2) educate the developer on how disk I/O works?

At some point you have to know something about the technology you're using, or accept that you're a consumer of the ever-shifting general best practice, shifting with it as the best practice shifts.


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websaptoday at 12:44 AM

Does using print() in Python means I need to understand the Kernel? This is an absurd thought.

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zemyesterday at 10:50 PM

mmap(2) and all its underlying machinery are open source and well documented besides.

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