@cozykaffe@snouts.online I think the trick is that no single person ever has understood completely how computers work. Just like a woodworker doesn't need to know how a circular saw works, a programmer doesn't need to know how a compiler works. So the knowledge is spread out over millions of people, all experts in their respective comparatively small corners of computer science and engineering, and it's only by all of them working together that we get anything at all out of computers.