> You're effectively asking it to invent a rationale for what you are telling it was the thing it told you last time round.
There’s lots of evidence that this is what people do, too. Asked about their reasoning, people will do things like include information they didn’t have at the time. The part of the mind that moves the fastest doesn’t encode the process to memory[0] but we’re really uncomfortable saying “I don’t know” about our own decisions. So, we rationalize.
If you want to be more accurate, you need to do the same thing of “thinking out loud”, either subvocalization, voice or paper. Even then it’s not perfect. Easy to make up your mind and justify it after.
[0] Which, of course it wouldn’t. You don’t log every line of your fastest piece of code. Then it’s not fast.
There’s lots of evidence that this is what people do, too. Asked about their reasoning, people will do things like include information they didn’t have at the time. The part of the mind that moves the fastest doesn’t encode the process to memory[0] but we’re really uncomfortable saying “I don’t know” about our own decisions. So, we rationalize.
If you want to be more accurate, you need to do the same thing of “thinking out loud”, either subvocalization, voice or paper. Even then it’s not perfect. Easy to make up your mind and justify it after.
[0] Which, of course it wouldn’t. You don’t log every line of your fastest piece of code. Then it’s not fast.