What You're Really Doing When You Write Code

Most developers spend years writing code... without ever understanding what computing actually is . That's a problem. Because until you understand how a machine processes information, you're not really designing systems—you're just arranging syntax. Computing, Stripped to Its Core At its lowest level, computing is simple: Input → Transformation → Output That's it. Every system you've ever used—whether it's a calculator, a backend API, or a distributed system—follows this pattern. But the real qu