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I agree but I do know a lot of 20 year old programmers who THINK they are better than their 30 year old counterparts

• _delirium 16y ago
  Hah, true. A kernel of truth in it might be that 20-year-old programmers sometimes pick very interesting problems to work on. It's interesting that the 21-year-old Torvalds is the one who wrote a Unix kernel from scratch, even if the 30-year-old Torvalds was a better programmer. And folks like Zuckerberg did interesting stuff quite young. But that's not quite the same as programmer skill; it requires being a good programmer and then having some other kind of opportunity-spotting skill (and some audacity+luck).