It’s a hard job that requires a lot of learning, failing, adapting, and growing. It’s frustrating, but getting good can only be done through endless grind. The

It’s a hard job that requires a lot of learning, failing, adapting, and growing. It’s frustrating, but getting good can only be done through endless grind. There are no cheat codes. After encountering and overcoming the roadblocks mentioned in the article, you grow keen to that class of problem, and next time, more quickly figure it out and move on. An apprentice woodworker is going to fuck up a cut and have to spend hours rebuilding. An aspiring musician is going to pour hours into mediocre music that nobody listens to. A new software engineer is going to get lost in the sea of complexity built on top of the rapid growth and death of fads and doctrines and tools (good and bad) that is decades deep. It’s fucking hard. I do think the pay reflects that, though perhaps is a biiiiit inflated. Regardless, shit ain’t easy. That being said, people generally quite enjoy sharing their knowledge, and helping the next generation of software people ramp up and kick ass, so there may be hope yet :)