To stay on computer science analogies, this reminds me of the principle of abstraction. When you call an API, it sort of feels like magic. A task gets done, and you trust that it was done correctly, and that saves you the time of controlling the code and rewriting it from scratch. “We have only to think out how this is to be done once, and forget then how it is done.” (A. Turing, 1947).
To stay on computer science analogies, this reminds me of the principle of abstraction. When you call an API, it sort of feels like magic. A task gets done, and you trust that it was done correctly, and that saves you the time of controlling the code and rewriting it from scratch. “We have only to think out how this is to be done once, and forget then how it is done.” (A. Turing, 1947).