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Lucky you. I always go "huh, so I wrote this?". And this was in the pre-AI era.
by copperx 7mo ago
Lucky you. I always go "huh, so I wrote this?". And this was in the pre-AI era.
- seba_dos1 7mo agoThese feelings aren't mutually exclusive. I'm often like "I have no memory of this place" while my name stares at me from git blame, but that doesn't mean my intuition of how it's structured isn't highly likely to be right in such cases.
- datsci_est_2015 7mo agoLike a painter not remembering a specific stroke, but being able to recreate it instantly because of years of muscle memory.
- suzzer99 7mo agoIt feels like that at first, especially as I get older. But I still think it comes back to me a lot quicker if I once understood it than if I was learning it from scratch. Possibly just because I know how I think.
- layer8 7mo agoThere is probably a bias here, because you notice the times where the code is unfamiliar more than the times when it’s still familiar. You wouldn’t go “huh” if not remembering was the normal case. If it were, you’d rather go “huh” if exceptionally you do remember.