I'm not really a programmer but when I code something at work to make my job easier and I have to go before I finish it, I write a little comment for my future self to explain how I'm thinking at the moment, to help restore the flow.
Usually it doesn't work. :-D
Because my work tends to have me working on a wide variety of features, and thus operating on vastly different parts of the codebase, I make it a point to comment out every change I make complete with the ticket that requested the change, and what the intended effect of the change is.
Cue me returning to piece of code I made (after the inevitable bug has arisen) and me staring at my own code changes in bewilderment, wondering what past me really wanted to do. Hahaha!
Now you can try to get chatgpt to explain what it does. Or Facebooks code llama.
Sometimes working at something for long enough puts you into like a fugue state. It’s like the opposite of “flow” where you just dumb down.
^This happens to me only when I had entered my dumbzone the previous shift
You very well could have substituted "Monday" with "after lunch."
I stg sometimes conversations with my coworkers will give me memento disease and I have to go on a hunt for clues I lefy myself to figure out what I was working on 5 mins ago.
My boss has a morning meeting where we tell him what we’re working on for the day. And every Monday, this meeting is at 8:00 when my shift starts. I’m thankful my name makes me further down the list because I would be stumbling to get that.
He’s a cool guy and not overly micromanager or anything, so it’s not a huge thing, but just reminded me seeing this meme.
Monday morning stand-ups are like, "yeah what AMi working on this week"
