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It's trained pattern matching gained through experience, i.e. machine learning.

What you said in the GP post stands true, it's important that beginners learn the correct patterns (look up documentation for idiomatic examples) and not false ones (blindly copy and pasting code).

You see this all the time in casinos; their goals is to reinforce poor pattern matching behavior. From roulette tables' results signs to bad poker players chasing terrible odds, the human mind has the ability to disproportionally increase the significance of selected memories.