I’ve had many similar experiences. Not confident, but I suspect a big part of this skill, at least for me, is something like “bucketing”—it’s easy to pick out the important line from a screen-full of console logs if I’m familiar with the 20[1] different types of console logs I expect to see in a given context and know that I can safely ignore almost all of them as either being console spam or irrelevant to the current issue. If you don’t have that basically-instant recognition, which must necessarily be faster than “reading speed”, the log output might as well be a black hole.
Becoming familiar with those 20 different types of console logs is some combination of general domain experience, project-specific experience, and native learning speed (for this kind of pattern matching).
Similar effect when reading code, and I suspect why some people care what seems like disproportionately much about coding standards/style/convention—if your codebase doesn’t follow a consistent style/set of conventions, you can end up paying a pretty large penalty by absence of that speedup.
I’ve had many similar experiences. Not confident, but I suspect a big part of this skill, at least for me, is something like “bucketing”—it’s easy to pick out the important line from a screen-full of console logs if I’m familiar with the 20[1] different types of console logs I expect to see in a given context and know that I can safely ignore almost all of them as either being console spam or irrelevant to the current issue. If you don’t have that basically-instant recognition, which must necessarily be faster than “reading speed”, the log output might as well be a black hole.
Becoming familiar with those 20 different types of console logs is some combination of general domain experience, project-specific experience, and native learning speed (for this kind of pattern matching).
Similar effect when reading code, and I suspect why some people care what seems like disproportionately much about coding standards/style/convention—if your codebase doesn’t follow a consistent style/set of conventions, you can end up paying a pretty large penalty by absence of that speedup.
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