I’ve had this run in both directions. Going through the repos a day later: “Holy hell, this solution is [utter shit || truly inspired || elegant AF || written by someone who should probably be fired]. Who wrote this? Me?! I don’t remember any of this.”
“What’s software development like?”
“Well, like the shamans of old, we work ourselves into a fugue state to hallucinate esoteric solutions to unsolvable problems, then kick it to junior scribes to record and implement.”
I’ve had this run in both directions. Going through the repos a day later: “Holy hell, this solution is [utter shit || truly inspired || elegant AF || written by someone who should probably be fired]. Who wrote this? Me?! I don’t remember any of this.”
The compartmentalization/fugue state is real.
I love it. I’ll have some fever-dream solving a problem that has had me stumped, then spend the next day fixing it up.
That’s happened to me enough to almost turn me to the woo side. :D “Answers Come In Dreams.”
“What’s software development like?” “Well, like the shamans of old, we work ourselves into a fugue state to hallucinate esoteric solutions to unsolvable problems, then kick it to junior scribes to record and implement.”