> One of the lessons I’ve learned is that the biggest difference between an occasional contributor and a core developer lies in the knowledge about the physical architecture of the project. Roughly, it takes 2x more time to write a patch if you are unfamiliar with the project, but it takes 10x more time to figure out where you should change the code.

Here here! This sounds like such awesome advice.

I wish we had better tools to visualize architecture of running systems. It's crazy to me that reading the code or a markdown file are still so state of the art. Maybe if someone's fancy they'll have some nice Mermaid diagrams. I want the architecture to be able to show itself live. Broadscale macroscale observability, baked in.

I think this would help everyone be able to appreciate & grok computing much more, would help humanity augment itself.