Over the last several years of my development career, I’ve often found myself forgetting how to do something I had successfully built just a few weeks earlier. Sometimes it’s a basic task; other times it’s specific syntax of a programming language.

It’s not a joke when you need several minutes on Monday to understand the code you wrote on Friday.

All of this points to one thing: the limitations of our mental capacity.

The human brain is a complex system. We cannot store more information than it can handle, and many factors influence how we remember things.

One major factor is age. When we are young, we can absorb a lot of new information. But as we get older, we lose some of that ability and need to put in more effort just to remember what we once learned easily.

In combination with the rapid growth of AI and ever-evolving technologies, it no longer makes sense to memorize every implementation detail. We simply don’t have the capacity for it.

Instead, we should focus on developing the skills to work with the tools that can perform these tasks — efficiently and accurately.

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