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Do y'all think folks with such memory will make better programmers?

• cannabisceo 8y ago
  From what I'm reading on Wikipedia it isn't equivalent to being able to memorize information. The skill is limited to being able to recall autobiographical details...so what you had for lunch in 1992 but not what you read in this CS textbook.
• akanet 8y ago
  I think about this question a lot. I think the article (and Borges) touch on the core issue: abstraction. I find that many of my employees find it very easy to program based on their lived experience programming similar tasks, but hard to take a step back and answer the question "What is the appropriate generalization of what I am doing right now?" My hypothesis these days is that a strong autobiographical memory has little to do with programming. Rather, a good memory for semantic information as well as the ability to creatively rotate one's perspective seem to be much more important.