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Except a real person can ask questions, even naive ones, and still guide your mind towards the solution. The process is incredibly close to maieutics, with the

• enraged_camel 14y ago
  No. Greenyoda is talking about the process where writing down just the initial description of the problem is sufficient to notice the solution. Happens to me all the time, and I also observe it happen to others. My more junior coworkers sometimes sent me IMs like this: Coworker: Hey enraged_camel, I'm having an issue, I was wondering if you can help It goes like this <description of the issue, followed by a 10-15 second pause> Actually I think I figured it out... Sometimes I read their problem description and don't respond for several minutes to allow them to have that internal conversation with themselves. And a lot of the time, it works.