Comment by gmueckl

Building projection optics is a bench top experiment that we did in 7th grade in school. Electric circuitry isn't exactly rocket science, either. Things like LCD panels for projecting arbitrary images and CCD chips for cameras become harder to understand.

But the point is to make users understand the system enough to instill the confidence to change things and explore further. This is important because the true power of computer systems comes from their flexibility and malleability.

You can never build that level of confidence with LLMs.