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but also of other people.

Yeah, there's this thing called the curse of knowledge. If an engineer has a deep understanding of something, it's not a given that they can explain it well. For them, the topic feels so simple, and they've done it so many times that they may have forgotten other people aren't as knowledgeable. They will throw terms around without explaining them, etc.

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