Andrew's distinction between associative vs logical thinking reminds me of two kinds of programming thinking. Half of my time while programming is spent churnin

Andrew's distinction between associative vs logical thinking reminds me of two kinds of programming thinking. Half of my time while programming is spent churning out glue code, satisfying a type checker and test suite, and implementing the simple solution that turns out to work. The other half of my time is spent slowly thinking through why some simple solution is wrong, and step by step proceeding towards the correct but complex solution. The former phase is intuitive, the latter phase is scientific, where I hypothesize, test, and repeat. Reading through the code-as-transcript afterwards it's unclear which bits of code required shallow associative vs deep rational thinking, pure autocomplete vs latent chain of thought.