How to Program in Your Sleep

Marianne Bellotti
4 min readAug 24, 2023

I thought it was just me … but then I talked to a bunch of mathematicians

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A year or two ago when I was working on the core compiler functionality for Fault, I got into this weird habit of programming in my sleep. I don’t mean I sleepwalked over to my computer and started cranking out API endpoints (although apparently some people also do this). I mean I would wrestle with a complex problem all day, only to give…

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Marianne Bellotti

Author of Kill It with Fire Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)