I actually think that a terrible short-term memory makes developers write better code. Because it forces them to write easy to read, well-commented code so that

I actually think that a terrible short-term memory makes developers write better code. Because it forces them to write easy to read, well-commented code so that they can figure out how to improve it later. I regulary have to modify code I wrote years ago and I more often that not have completely 100% forgotten ever writing it. So I have to read and learn my own code from scratch. Which taught me how to write code that is easy to read and learn for myself and others.