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Re:Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved by pavel_lishin on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:20AM (#48922228)
> Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?

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

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Re:Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved by NateEag on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:08PM (#48925645)
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.

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Re:Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved by pavel_lishin on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @03:49PM (#48926162)
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?

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