Comment by the_snooze

I feel like the dismissal of mental models is a direct consequence on the tech industry's manaical focus on scale and efficiency as the end-all be-all values to optimize.

Nevermind other important values like resilience, adaptability, reliability, and scrutability. An AI writes a function foo() that does a thing correctly; who has the know-how that can figure out if foo() kills batteries, or under what conditions it could contribute to an ARP storm or disk thrashing, or what implicit hardware requirements it has?