What this actually sounds like is building up a base of tricks and tools. Like a senior dev who has utility code they bring with them from job to job. The same

What this actually sounds like is building up a base of tricks and tools. Like a senior dev who has utility code they bring with them from job to job. The same applies to paradigms and code patterns. The fun thing about programming tasks and tools in particular though is that you crystalize your mental models into tools because of the natural of computers.