Totally, but learning from your mistakes is not necessarily tied to years at a desk. edit Also, we've all met that dev that just "gets it" and can be extremely

Totally, but learning from your mistakes is not necessarily tied to years at a desk. edit Also, we've all met that dev that just "gets it" and can be extremely productive regardless of time at a job/company/project. That dev also "got it" when they were pretty new to the industry.