Development Speed vs Age

StrangeWill

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This is something that kind of rolls around the industry a bit -- that as developers age out they get slower/less efficient/etc. whatever.

There's a few fun takes on my part:

  • I totally wrote more code when I was 20
    • Like that 4000 line file instead of making it completely data driven and what would have probably been 200 lines
  • My speed is way faster now
    • I create complete solutions with much more intention and speed, I know a lot of non-novel implementations like the back of my hand, I know to not reinvent the wheel and avoid "not invented here" syndrome
  • I do sort of get this idea, we've hired a lot of older hats that were one trick ponies
    • However, we're seeing this across the industry, lots of companies are trying to "single stack" their solutions so you don't have to learn more than one thing your entire career (ick) -- so prepare for another surge of people that only know JS or C#
    • This hyper-focus never made for a good engineer
    • However they were never fast at 25 either
 
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