Discussion
Studying after a 1 day break:
10 min to remember what you were doing
25 min learning new things
Studying after a 2 day break:
30 min to remember what you were doing.
5 min learning new things
Studying after a 3 day break:
35 min to, maybe, remember what you were doing?
No progress. OR 1 hour learning it for the first time. Still no progress.
@futurebird Programming after year long burnout:
I know I used to know how to check out files.
@mathew @futurebird Oh no joke. This week, I got pulled back into a dev project I hadn't touched for a couple months. I could recognize my own work and read all the code and comments, but darn... for hours, I had no idea why I did the things I did or how to apply it to a new function we needed.
After interrogating it for a long while, trying to rebuild what I built before (to see if my fundamentals would guide me toward the conceptualization path I previously tread), I had to step away in frustration. It was clear in my comments that I *had* thought what I did before was obvious and needed no additional documentation.
As soon as I stopped looking at the code, the underlying concept logic from all those months ago flooded back. Looking again at the same code, it all suddenly became obvious once more.
Human brains are fascinating machines.
(Better hurry up and write better documentation for the next brain that needs to work on this.)
@DanielMReck @futurebird You’ve just reminded me of how often I would wake up in the morning with an “Aha!” because my brain had worked out the solution to some problem while I was asleep. Yet another piece of evidence that brains are not just symbol manipulation machines and LLMs don’t work like brains.
@futurebird #ALT4me