cognitive psychology. PhD 
Old topic. New blog post: https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/offload-mental-simulation.html …
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More context about this essay that should have been in the above tweet: Title: Offload Mental Simulation Abstract: Future programming systems should focus more on reducing cognitive burden, specially of the kind that involves "running the program in your head".
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Agree with the vision, but a missing piece: abstractions. Most code is spread across functions, classes, decorators, traits, so on. Building a holistic understanding of a system requires traversing the abstraction stack, and conversely tools for collapsing abstractions.
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Yes you're right. Fits the theme but I completely left that aspect out. In fact I think it will compose very well with abstract interpretation. "Inline then evaluate"
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