Alchemical breakdown

1) Purify sand into its base elements

2) grow one of those elements into a crystal with extreme smoothness

3) engrave strange patterns into the crystal using gold and light itself

4) imbue with the power of lightning

5) command the resulting artifact in strange tongues

6) Find that your commands were imprecisely planned and suffer consequences that, technically, you should have seen coming

 

 

This basically sums up computer manufacturing and programming.