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Comment author: owencb 30 May 2015 08:49:30AM 2 points [-]

Yes, gjm's summary is right.

I agree that there are some important disanalogies between the two problems. I thought software development was an unusually good domain to start trying to learn the general skill, mostly because it offers easy-to-generate complex challenges where it's simple to assess success.