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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by RealityVoid on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:36PM (#47199294)
Absolutely not. Learning has been to experiment with the things until you form a effective mental model of the thing. Writing things does ab-so-luetely nothing except make you feel good in the moment. Just like listening to a lecture without engaging with the subject matter deeper.

Writing things down is important for organisational persistence of information but that is something else.

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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by direwolf20 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:43PM (#47199351)
Writing is better than reading, but doing is better than writing.
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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by shimman on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:45PM (#47199375)
How does this apply to coding when the act of writing IS doing? Or do you mean like coding "on your own" versus following a tutorial for example?
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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by coldtea on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:13PM (#47199710)
Means writing code (doing) vs writing documentation / plans / project architecture documents and so on.
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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by direwolf20 on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:58PM (#47199528)
Writing code is doing
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Re:Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension by matsemann on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:00AM (#47204367)
Choosing what to write down is making a mental model, extracting the core and thinking about the subject.

Seems to me you're just a bad note-taker that blindly writes things down, and for some reason decided to use that lack of knowledge in a tirade against me..

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