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@jztusk Here's a visualization from one of my “Introduction to human-computer interaction” slides (riffing on Figure 1 from https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.1145/2594128) where I try to convey that programming involves not only anticipating and steering the computer's internal state, but also designing it so that it works reliably and predictably for future users and their (less detailed than yours) mental model of the computer's behavior. A related notion, I feel. @mweiss @nedbat