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Re:Ask HN: What do you think while developing? by DigitalSea on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @08:02PM (#9495801)
Weirdly enough, I have never stopped to think about what I think when I am coding. I actually am not thinking of anything, at least not subconsciously anyway. I find I talk to myself out loud quite frequently, more in the form of questions and expressions, "Why are you not working?", "Line 38, line 38", "Hmm interesting" and "WTF?"

When I am not coding, I like to play guitar. I find the two are quite similar in that I don't think about what strings I want to play or think about the chords, it just happens thanks to my muscle memory. I actually don't think at all when I play guitar and the times I am aware of this fact, it actually throws me off and messes up my playing when I attempt to think. This is how I code, I don't think about what I am going to write, I just know like it is embedded in my muscle memory.

Re:Ask HN: What do you think while developing? by gonification on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @08:10PM (#9495832)
From what I've run across, your experience seems quite common. It also seems common that people don't consider what they think while programming.

Do you think that deliberate thought would interfere with coding similar to the guitar?