Seibel: And do you remember any particular aha! moments where you noticed the difference between working on something by yourself and working on a team? Norvig: I don't know if it was so much moments, but just this realization that you can't do everything yourself. I think a lot of programming is being able to keep as much as you can inside your head, but that only goes so far, at least in my head. Then you have to rely on other people to have the right abstractions so that you can use what they have. I started thinking about it in terms of, “How is this likely done?” rather than, “I know how
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