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Did you know that there are Go problems that professional players can't solve, but that newbies solve trivially? Becoming a professional go player creates blind
by milesvp 5y ago
Did you know that there are Go problems that professional players can't solve, but that newbies solve trivially? Becoming a professional go player creates blind spots, basically any board that could never happen in a real game just don't make any sense to someone at that level.
And while, I don't equate merging 2 sorted arrays with being an unsolvable problem for an experienced dev, I have personally experienced similar increasing difficulty to toy problems as I gain increasing real world experience. Common things like timestamps and full names are not as simple as they seem, and so now, I'm less likely to just jump to an answer that would have seemed obvious to me 20 years ago. And it's not like I come up with the solution and discard it, it's more like the previously obvious solution is no longer the first things I think about.