The Observer Effect

The Observer Effect
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Normal programming: confident strides up the staircase. Programming with an audience: suddenly you forget how to type, what variables are, and whether semicolons even exist. It's like your brain decides to factory reset the moment someone peers over your shoulder. The curse of the observer effect in its purest form – quantum mechanics has nothing on the performance anxiety of live coding.