It might help if you could be more specific. It's difficult to offer advice without knowing what kinds of problems you are talking about. Many programming pro

It might help if you could be more specific. It's difficult to offer advice without knowing what kinds of problems you are talking about. Many programming problems are in fact trivial and it's not surprising that an experienced programmer would solve them somewhat automatically. Other problems are either inherently more difficult or just contain a lot of complexity that needs to be worked through and understood.