>This is a bit too simple: writing more of the same, in the same style I think the author means there's a correlation between the amount of code one writes and

>This is a bit too simple: writing more of the same, in the same style I think the author means there's a correlation between the amount of code one writes and their progress. For a more complete view, there's the often cited article The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance[0] where the authors make a point that it's not just practice that makes perfect, but deliberate practice. They set to find and explain patterns exceptional people follow. What you're talking about is what someone who says they have 20 years of experience but, in reality, they have 6 months of experience they've been repeating 40 times. [0]: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.PDF http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...