> The bottleneck has always been in understanding all the implicit assumptions baked into the system that for one reason or another are essential to its correct

> The bottleneck has always been in understanding all the implicit assumptions baked into the system that for one reason or another are essential to its correctness. > It takes a particular kind of masochist to enjoy reverse engineering a black box from just poking at it with simple linear impulses. These are great observations and brilliantly put. In particular the second one I think rightly explains why some very smart people definitely do not take to programming as a profession.