Perishable-skills Memes

Take a two-week vacation and suddenly f-strings look like ancient Elvish runes. By 2050, we'll be staring at basic Python loops like archaeologists trying to decipher hieroglyphics. "Wait, you're telling me I used to understand this?" The half-life of programming knowledge is about 6 months, and that's being generous. Step away from your IDE for a hot minute and your brain immediately starts garbage collecting everything you knew. That's why senior devs spend half their day Googling syntax they wrote yesterday.