TL;DR: Yes, you'll get better. I'm reminded of a recent article about grandmaster chess players - when briefly shown a chess board with pieces that were laid o

TL;DR: Yes, you'll get better. I'm reminded of a recent article about grandmaster chess players - when briefly shown a chess board with pieces that were laid out in a reasonable way, they were later able to recall them exactly with ease. Non-chess players were generally unable to recall them at all. When shown chessboards that made no sense (strange configurations, etc), the grandmasters were not any better than non-players. I think that if you're relatively new, this sort of thing can be difficult, but the more you work with code, the easier it will become. Common patterns become "more of the same" and you can start to notice minor details relatively easily.