> Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?

Are they maintaining it if all they do is type prompts into Claude?

Yes, they are.

They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell.

But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.

	▲	pavel_lishin 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It brings to mind the Chinese Room argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room If a person in a Chinese Room doesn't actually understand Chinese, though the system as a whole behaves as if it does - can we say that the engineer merging PRs and deploying to production understands the system or maintains it?