Comment by Last5Digits

Understanding comes in many forms. My uncle will not be able to model the fuel flow in his car's engine using the Navier–Stokes equations, yet he can still drive better than me. When it comes to LLMs, an understanding of the transformer architecture is wholly unnecessary to develop a good model of their capabilities and pitfalls. HN commenters tend to lack both a technical and abstract understanding of LLMs, while non-tech people tend to only lack the former.