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Problem solving is problem solving, so I'm not sure there's much of a substantive difference.

There's this: back then I made good hey from my excellent memory for APIs and minutia of system behavior. That's a completely unimportant skill now. Now you can look any of that up in a few keystrokes (at worst -- probably your text editor just pops up the relevant info as you type).

But my main skill is as useful now as it was then: I find solutions to problems. And I don't fall in love with a solution before I fully understand the problem (which is really never).



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