Nope. Another miss. Good cooks can imagine flavors and guess at timing and ingredients for food they've never tasted (much less prepared) just as good painters

Nope. Another miss. Good cooks can imagine flavors and guess at timing and ingredients for food they've never tasted (much less prepared) just as good painters can visualize a work in their head before ever putting brush to paper. Programmers should be able to work the same way.