> "It takes you a while to read code & understand what it's doing". She was right. Yeah but the young inexperienced people are also overconfident and assume th

> "It takes you a while to read code & understand what it's doing". She was right. Yeah but the young inexperienced people are also overconfident and assume they understand things, when they actually don't, jump to conclusions and waste a lot of time coding themselves into a corner, before they realise: AH! Now I actually understand what the problem is! Back to square one. A more experienced person has made this mistake enough times, to understand that it's worth spending the time it takes to actually understand something, before making changes, and stroking your ego by pretending to be fast, is really counterproductive.