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copperx | 1 day ago

Lucky you. I always go "huh, so I wrote this?". And this was in the pre-AI era.

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seba_dos1|1 day ago

These 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|1 day ago

Like a painter not remembering a specific stroke, but being able to recreate it instantly because of years of muscle memory.

layer8|1 day ago

There 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.

suzzer99|1 day ago

It 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.