The Selective Amnesia Of Software Developers

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The Selective Amnesia Of Software Developers

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The dev brain is truly a marvel of selective amnesia. Skip coding for a single day and suddenly your framework knowledge evaporates, your syntax is from 2015, and you're Googling "how to center div" for the 500th time. Meanwhile, you can perfectly recall that one obscure Stack Overflow answer from 7 years ago about why your production server crashed. The two-month setback is real - I've returned from a one-week vacation needing three days just to remember my password conventions.

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