> It often fixes the problem, but it's just something she's learned to do with little understanding.
This reminds me of a hacker koan:
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by
turning the power off and on.
Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke
sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling
it with no understanding of what is going wrong."
Knight turned the machine off and on.
The machine worked.
This reminds me of a hacker koan: