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If what was holding you back from being a 10x engineer was not remembering syntax, then you're already there.

Myself I wish to not remember things of this nature. My IDE can autocomplete my code with API references. My terminal history is set to infinite so I can grep for whatever command I found useful in the past.

I instead want to spend my time and memory on deepening my understanding of certain topics, or on brushing up on concepts and techniques I've known in the past but have come close to forgetting.




The truth is that if you’re familiar with a few families of languages - you’ll reinvent the syntax on the go: “if I myself wanted to implement a feature I am about to use - which syntax would I converge upon?”.

If you’re working in an IDE you’ll also have a realtime hint on whether your guess was the correct one.




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