I really loved Devs but, as another "interested lay person", I did find it hard not to feel a bit cheated by the total reliance on the false core premise of hard determinism. (I believe) hard determinism has been firmly ruled out by physics for a century (Heisenberg and such). As there is a fundamental limit to what can be predicted there can never be perfect prediction/simulation no matter how much information you have nor how much computing resources. Hence the show's premise falls apart like the DEUS particle clouds in the show. Also," yelling "Radioactive decay" at the screen during the scene belaboring the question of "name something that is truly random" was a bit irritating. Alex Garland definitely knows that so we're again being asked to block out reality and ignore a blatant plot fudge required to bolster the big lie (hard determinism).<br>Still", as a work of fantasy, for a universe that is definitively not ours, it was a wonderful watch.