Comment by tcdent
7 hours ago
I agree with you with one caveat. Professionally, your obligation is to be qualified for your job and ship work that you stand behind. Complete comprehension is absolutely necessary.
Personally, with side projects and tooling, go nuts. There's no reason to read all of that code.
Complete comprehension has never been a thing. Unless you were working solo with no dependencies, you never completely understood what was being shipped. I don't think an npm import vs an LLM implementation of a well-scoped, well-abstracted library is any different.
> Complete comprehension is absolutely necessary.
I feel like an increasing amount of orgs out there have long abandoned this thinking.