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> The most mind-boggling thing about development IMO is the fact that it works at all, let alone so reliably.

That's why so many people don't accept the evolutionary theory. It's just hard to think on evolutionary timescales, there's no difference for most of us between 1 million, 10 million or 1 billion years. Nevertheless, it took billions of years for life to evolve.

> let alone so reliably.

To be fair it sometimes does not work and we end up with deformed babies.

> The most mind-boggling thing about development IMO is the fact that it works at all, let alone so reliably.

This sounds to me like engineers talking about a code base :)

The process looks similar to a CNC machine replicating a predefined shape. Except that here the material is able to grow itself. In this case it's not surprising that a CNC machine always creates about the same shape from a rather amorphous material.