I can’t imagine being a professional programmer until it’s a System 1 activity at least half of the time.
This. In just about every field. It helps that in programming, and some of the sciences, that there is quick feedback. I have a physics degree but my job is fuzzier than that. After 4 years a lot of the time judgments start as “This doesn’t sound right ” and a lot of the work is reconstructing a communicable line of reasoning.
This. In just about every field. It helps that in programming, and some of the sciences, that there is quick feedback. I have a physics degree but my job is fuzzier than that. After 4 years a lot of the time judgments start as “This doesn’t sound right ” and a lot of the work is reconstructing a communicable line of reasoning.
I’m glad my intuition has been borne out by real people!