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Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out. >I played around a lot with code wh

Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out. >I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream. >Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now. posted on April 15, 2015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537 >I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency. >I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation. posted on Jan 20, 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482 So I don't really understand where this claim of only "6 months of coding experience" is coming from, when you clearly have been coding on and off for multiple decades.

spaceman_2020 2y ago
you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?
- azemetre 2y ago
  I think the comment is fair. The poster came across as inexperienced with programming when in reality they have a decade plus experience. I trust experience people can make better use of these tools because ideally they should have a foundation of first principles to work off of whereas inexperienced people jumping straight into LLMs may not be fully understanding what is happening or what they are given.
  - spaceman_2020 2y ago
    I don’t have a decade of coding experience. I do have almost two decades of internet experience, especially marketing. I had an aborted attempt at learning to code back in 2013-14, but I never stuck around, mostly because I was freelancing as a content marketer (GrowthPub.com) My first real coding experience was when I joined a bootcamp (Code.in bootcamp) in 2022. Only reason I could stick around this time was because I had a chunk of change after selling my agency and had nothing else to do I’m a humanities grad for what its worth

spaceman_2020 2y ago

you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?

azemetre 2y ago
I think the comment is fair. The poster came across as inexperienced with programming when in reality they have a decade plus experience. I trust experience people can make better use of these tools because ideally they should have a foundation of first principles to work off of whereas inexperienced people jumping straight into LLMs may not be fully understanding what is happening or what they are given.
- spaceman_2020 2y ago
  I don’t have a decade of coding experience. I do have almost two decades of internet experience, especially marketing. I had an aborted attempt at learning to code back in 2013-14, but I never stuck around, mostly because I was freelancing as a content marketer (GrowthPub.com) My first real coding experience was when I joined a bootcamp (Code.in bootcamp) in 2022. Only reason I could stick around this time was because I had a chunk of change after selling my agency and had nothing else to do I’m a humanities grad for what its worth