Programming for 40 years, professionally for more than half that. I don't, as a rule, "concentrate for 10-12 hours without talking to anyone." Nor do I see th

Programming for 40 years, professionally for more than half that. I don't, as a rule, "concentrate for 10-12 hours without talking to anyone." Nor do I see the best coding from people who do that. Most programming as I have experienced it is a mix of solitary and social skills, and there is room in the profession for a fairly wide range of weightings of the two of those. The apprentice idea is interesting. I don't know anyone who has done that formally with just a single teaching individual, but the companies I've worked at definitely value senior developers who can mentor and teach, so maybe the apprenticeship model is actually there already, hiding in plain sight.