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Another great analogy! This is somewhat of a tangent, but you might be interested in this paper from some researchers in 1980. It's titled "A Five-Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition": https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA084551.pdf
In it they talk a lot about how expertise is gained and how your experience is first applied consciously and then becomes subconscious over time. They reference chess a lot and what distinguishes a great chess player from an average one.
Hard disagree! Let's let computers do the things that they're good at and let humans do the things that we're good at. Linters, formatters, git hooks, and CI pipelines are incredibly beneficial, not a crutch to be avoided.
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Sep 22, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Another great analogy! This is somewhat of a tangent, but you might be interested in this paper from some researchers in 1980. It's titled "A Five-Stage Model of the Mental Activities Involved in Directed Skill Acquisition": https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA084551.pdf
In it they talk a lot about how expertise is gained and how your experience is first applied consciously and then becomes subconscious over time. They reference chess a lot and what distinguishes a great chess player from an average one.
Sep 22, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Thank you Marco!
Sep 22, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Hard disagree! Let's let computers do the things that they're good at and let humans do the things that we're good at. Linters, formatters, git hooks, and CI pipelines are incredibly beneficial, not a crutch to be avoided.
Sep 20, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Thanks Jasper!
Sep 20, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Thank you Thomas!
Sep 20, 2021 · Tyler Hawkins
Thank you Dmitry! That's very kind of you.