Knowledge retention Memes

Ah yes, the universal truth of our profession. Spend three months mastering a new framework with painful, step-by-step progress, only to forget it all in approximately 2.5 seconds after switching projects. The left side shows our heroic climb up Mount Knowledge—slow, methodical, and filled with Stack Overflow pilgrimages. The right side? That's your brain doing its best Olympic ski jump impression the moment you don't touch that codebase for a week. I've got decade-old code I wrote that might as well be hieroglyphics now. Memory is just cache, and we all know how reliable cache invalidation is...