Great article.

I’ve been there, still working it out, despite the fact that I still am a hobbyist coder. I tend to think that it’s not actually “instinct”, though, it’s basically an accumulated experience that started very slow at the young age. I believe most coders, who started early enough in their life, have developed permanent neural links related to code, which makes coding “natural” for them, *like* an instinct. This is what expert systems are all about, developing strong neural links and connections in response to a given dataset (experiences), hence it is more of an experience than an instinct, imho.