The reason it’s hard is exactly because you have to do it in shorter time and without a feedback cycle that has you learn bit by bit, like when you’d write the

The reason it’s hard is exactly because you have to do it in shorter time and without a feedback cycle that has you learn bit by bit, like when you’d write the code yourself. It has some similarity with short-term cramming for an exam, where you will soon forget most of it afterwards, as opposed to when you built up the knowledge and problem-solving exercise over a longer period of time.