I tried that, and at first it almost worked. But that scaffolding just kept breaking. TeamCity doesn't want to execute my unit tests since I've upgraded to .Net 5.0, I still don't get how that docker "latest" tag works, my Ubuntu-TeamCity-Agent refuses to acknowledge it's running in Linux and that it has access to docker. After a while I realized I was wasting precious free time.

But I agree about the cognitive load. I have ADHD so in order to qualify as "high functioning" I need to continuously improve my coping strategies when it comes to keeping that load low. I write everything down. My thought process is anchored in long text files with hundreds of indented lists. My programming style is super verbose and perhaps a bit enterprisey, but each class does one thing and I always spend extra effort making sure the things I can re-use work well enough that it's safe to forget how they work.

Oddly enough, my reserves are much bigger when it comes to programming. I remember having trouble with some linear algebra homework - it involved a lot of matrix calculations, and my results just didn't make sense, and I couldn't focus long enough. So I programmed it instead, and it worked immediately and solved my homework. I think it was about change of basis, which actually got me side-tracked because I realized the same code could be used for a simple 3D renderer. And that's what got me into computer graphics. What was the topic again?