Comment by kqr

3 days ago

...or do they just perform worse on these memory-intensive tasks? The latter seems more likely to be common.

But the uncommon case is interesting though. Some deficiencies might lead to a certain kind of problem-solving that occasionally produces exceptionally useful solutions. Isn't that why we valorize laziness in programmers?

  • The overrepresentation of autism spectrum in programmers is interesting. Maybe the extreme hierarchy of code fits well.