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There's a YouTube video about beginner musicians vs intermediate vs advanced. The beginner uses simple chords The intermediate uses advanced chords, crazy fil

• userbinator 5y ago
  That's not far from a similar saying in software: expert developers write code that looks like a beginner's, but simpler and with fewer bugs.
  • trashtester 5y ago
    Beginner devs write code that is over-simplified, and needs hack on top of hack to do anything useful. Intermediate devs write code that is over-engineered in places where it could be simple, while still needing a lot of extensive refactoring in the parts that deal with irreducible complexity. Expert devs think deeply about the problem at hand, understand where the complexity is, and create a solution that is as simple as possible, but no simpler. After the fact, beginner and intermediate devs tend to think of this code as something trivial, that anyone could do. This is why it may sometimes be tactically useful for the expert dev to sometimes take on projects that some beginner or intermediate team has been struggling with for some extended period of time, analyze it properly, and show how elegant the difficult parts can be solved. Care is needed, though, as it can affect the morale of the other devs and even cause hostility. If the expert dev has a secure position in the organization and want to keep those other devs around, keeping a low profile as well as letting those devs take as much as possible of the credit is adviced.
• jbmny 5y ago
  "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."
• khazhoux 5y ago
  "It took me a lifetime to paint like a child." -- Picasso