Sounds like pattern matching from training on many years worth of examples of what is “normal in similar situations” to filter that out when looking for surprising stuff—sometimes called “experience” and other times called “a fresh pair of eyes”… Or did you have this reading ability from the first day when you started to learn your first programming language / it never happens the other way round that you click on stuff for an hour and have to ask a colleague to come over and they would point out something in your blind spot?
I learned to program young enough that I don’t really remember the process, and I have about 25 years of experience, so I agree with the diagnosis.
I can certainly have a blind spot about logical reasoning related to a program, but I don’t recall having a “it says it right there” kind of blind spot.
Sounds like pattern matching from training on many years worth of examples of what is “normal in similar situations” to filter that out when looking for surprising stuff—sometimes called “experience” and other times called “a fresh pair of eyes”… Or did you have this reading ability from the first day when you started to learn your first programming language / it never happens the other way round that you click on stuff for an hour and have to ask a colleague to come over and they would point out something in your blind spot?
I learned to program young enough that I don’t really remember the process, and I have about 25 years of experience, so I agree with the diagnosis.
I can certainly have a blind spot about logical reasoning related to a program, but I don’t recall having a “it says it right there” kind of blind spot.