They certainly do have confidence, but it doesn't hurt building upon it. I don't think confidence is a discrete 0 or 1 variable. It's a continuous variable, from 0 to infinity.

By the way, I made a question, not a statement. I welcome the argument on whether it's worth the time to memorize the stuff Autopilot can autocomplete. That's something to measure and debate.

> Careful about those assumptions; in this case it comes across as a little patronizing.

Thanks for the heads up. This is important. But I didn't make any assumption. It seems maybe you made an assumption about me making an assumption?

If that's the case, don't worry as I did not feel patronized.

> None of them seem to have accomplished spectacular feats of learning

> many people who have accomplished spectacular feats of learning DO often use spaced repetition

---

Second note:

> Spaced repetition is a good tool for learning vocabulary.

This might be a misconception? The first ever published paper about spaced repetition was about vocabulary.

But research has shown its merits are valid for many other types of knowledge.

By the way, memorizing coding vocabulary is arguably similar to human language vocabulary.

That assumes I once had the knowledge of what is "correct".

I just don't quite remember it right now. Then I rely on Autopilot to complete it.

Sometimes I may not feel sure enough to judge whether Copilot is right. I'll need to dig the documentation anyways.

Other times I'll feel sure. But in how many of those I'll be wrong? And what will be the consequences?