alt Hacker NewsHere's the critical assumption: Somebody has to know how it works, in order for it to be usable.
That's not actually true. Nobody understands everything about how an airplane works, not even the lead engineers. Nobody understands everything about how a car works, or how medical billing works, or how taxes work, or how traffic flow works, or how a CPU works, or how almost anything works. You just need to understand the broad picture and be able to find the details when necessary.
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> Nobody understands everything about how an airplane works, not even the lead engineers. Nobody understands everything about how a car works
Of course people do.
We're losing a respect and understanding of how basic competence works.
This is textbook whataboutism.
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Your post is absolute nonsense. Plenty of people know exactly how everything on a plane or car works, or a CPU. I've worked with tons of people who do.
The fear of deskilling is very valid and is already messing things up.