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> I was a Psych major, so code was always more “writing” than “gears” to me… It was ALWAYS “magic.

The magic is supposed to disappear as you grow (or you’re not growing). The true magic of programming is you can actually understand what once was magic to you. This is the key difference I’ve seen my entire career - good devs intimately know “a layer below” where they work.

> Perhaps because humans are also nondeterministic

We’re not, we just lack understanding of how we work.