And “ninjas” or whatever the term is for senior+ programmers know when to solve problems without a computer at all! That’s when you’ve reached enlightenment :)

And “ninjas” or whatever the term is for senior+ programmers know when to solve problems without a computer at all! That’s when you’ve reached enlightenment :) And I don’t mean that in a woowoo wishy washy way. I mean that when someone comes to you with a business problem, often the solution can be something as simple as “why not just change the text to say X” or “did you know that dept Y already do that thing? Let’s ask if they will take on this task also” A junior will have already coded 100 lines of “something”. And some seniors I know of will be knee deep in microservices whiteboard sessions by now. The truly great programmers I’ve worked with prefer simplicity first and foremost.