alt Hacker NewsBecause it produces the desired output. The purpose of a program.
There are many domains where an intelligent human can act as a discriminator for output without knowing exactly in precise detail how the process itself works.
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fc417fc802 • yesterday at 9:24 PM
That is certainly true, but there are also many cases where someone without core expertise who believes themselves to be a capable discriminator actually is not.
Producing the desired output is the purpose of the program, but it's not the only consideration: there's performance, maintainability, security, and so on.