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I think we're overestimating how much humans can keep in context. Throughout my career I've seen many instances that folks completely get it wrong and miss the

• makeitdouble 2y ago
  You're right, but it's also why vibe coding doesn't work IMHO. We had the same situation with TDD: can we give out succinct specs and ignore what happens in the code if the specs are met ? For anything beside Hello world, the answer was no, absolutely not. It still mattered that the logic was somewhat reasonable and you were not building a Rube Goldberg machine giving the right answers to the given tests 95% of the time. Especially as the tests didn't cover all the valid input/output nor all the possible error cases in the problem space. It's because there's a lot happening that we need to have simple blocks that we can trust and not black boxes that were already beyond our understanding.