I can solve thorny problems using Linux on a Laptop too, that doesn't mean I understand even 1% of the system. Even a relatively simple modern Microcontroller is so extremely complex that I don't think a single person could describe every aspect of it in detail.

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aa-jv 5 days ago | parent [-]

By way of anecdotal counterpoint, I've got a teenage trainee apprentice working in my lab who can indeed read the RP2350 datasheet and describe what its doing and how to use it effectively in other applications.

I don't think things are as difficult to understand as you do - but then again, I grew up with 8-bit computers where it really was competitively important to understand how they worked - and I don't think the cyclomatic complexity of the Ashet is much greater than anything from that era.

	▲	echoangle 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Reading and applying the datasheet doesn't mean understanding the whole system. I don't even think a single employee of Raspberry Pi Foundation entirely understands the chip. It's a combination of IP cores and work of many different people, and probably too complex for a single person.