Luke, I am your code

I am getting scared. I don't write code while drunk or late at night, but I leave it for a few days or even weeks once in a while. And whenever I come back to it, it's like something has been going on while I was gone. Code that I was planning to continue writing now is already there, half-done, but I don't remember writing it!

Is my memory that bad? Am I going crazy? Is my code going sentient? Has anyone had moments like this before?

 

I think most of mine is from when I'm drunk, but I don't usually drink so much while coding that I forget what I've done. Otherwise I would say it's because I had jumped ahead to do that part way before I needed to, or a copy/paste job from something else.

 

Your code is becoming self-aware.

 

There is a ghost of a Unity developer in your house. When you are sleeping or away he writes the code for you coz he is bored!

 

but... how?...
http://xkcd.com/323/

 

I think I know the perfect solutio... Wait, what am I doing here? Who am I?

 

Du-dun dun du-dun!

 

No.

I'll admit, I've gained remote access to your computer and have been writing code and doing all kinds of other things while you're asleep. That's why the code you don't remember is always written vastly better than the rest of your code.

Take comfort in knowing that all your files are being pirated across the internet as we speak.

 

You've probably been writing self modifying code.

 

Teach me master, to write code so well that it continues writing itself!

 

Yes, I've had moments like that. I stub things in as I go so that I can wire other things up to the interface before actually implementing it. As I'm stubbing, there's a lot of super simple stuff I may as well put in while I'm there - so I hash it out without really thinking about it - I leave comments as I go so that I'm reminded what I planned on doing/how other stuff expects it to work, but sometimes it's just as easy to write the code as it is to describe it, so I do that instead.

Then later on, when I come back to implement the stubs, I sometimes find that the "stubs" already form a significant amount of the implementation, or that I've left myself literally a colour-between-the-lines where all the data is wired up and I just have to fill in a few key algorithms or data transforms or whatnot.

 

Yes, please, teach us all!

 

Yes! Oh great one, bestow upon our sad unindented spaghetti code the power of the l33t. We have been waiting oh great one...........also oh great one, while our minds are poisoned by the pint clear our internet caches of 'Dirty over 30' so that our other halves cannot see it to then cast us away from thee, oh l337 master.

 

I'd rather have him log into the Unity devs' computers at night to hurry the release of 4.6 or 5