That feeling you get when you write code so complicated, that a few weeks later, even with tutorial-level documentation, you don't know whats going on, so you just rewrite from scratch.

Yeah that just happened to me.

No time for deep work to re-grok what the fuck I was working toward, so I just rewrote the core of it to relearn the entire process.

Had comments, documentation, step-by-steps. Still the ability to understand and reason about it noped-the-fuck-out of the building apparently.

Might have had something to do with zero sleep three days in a row and too much red bull.

Sleep-deprived me operates on a whole different plane of existence.

I thought you were a Math addict... What is this shit Red Bull you been drinking? ;-)

I got to this level once (actually a few times) and I was so confused

I don't know if I want to work in that area of... thought-space. like how do you even navigate. I'm just unloading my subconsciousness and then I guess it changed like some kind of quantum leap? like what the fuck is that. it's like you meditate and you entered some other plane of existence where you lose your mind once you find it because you can't stably materialize it for whatever fucking reason

how did it work. what the hell is this

just what the hell

I wrote the same software x4-x5 times. i took notes every time. every time I had to rewrite it. the kicker? after version 2-3 it was worse. how does that make any sense? what the fuck?

HOW CAN YOU DO SOMETHING AND NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DID?!

Source:

https://monkeyuser.com/2018/...

I'm so good in remembering code, i even remember ~ line numbers of certain code. BUT - it's also possible to create something twice :P Completely the opposite.

Btw, three nights? Those are rookie numbers young man.

A good chunk of my dev career was updating legacy shit + recompiling decompiled code 🦹(I cracked my universities apps to get the PDFs/EPUBs)

I don't think I've ever not been able to figure out what I've written before, but I have called myself an imbecile before.

The best advice I can give, is figure out your mind state and how you imagined data would flow in that scenario. It could also be an aspect of code style, I can still easily understand my hand written firebase ORM...

Wait you said 3 days, I'm pretty sure that fucks with your memories