I was an early bloomer and I'm grateful for it. I've now been coding regularly for more than half my life in a spectrum of different languages. And what I think

I was an early bloomer and I'm grateful for it. I've now been coding regularly for more than half my life in a spectrum of different languages. And what I think that gives one is a kind of muscle memory that makes it possible to do thousands of small calculations about code with near-zero conscious effect. But while having a lot of raw experience under your belt makes writing of actual code much faster, I think the real benefit is that it frees up your working memory and problem-solving capacity for the more important problems of software engineering: mitigating complexity, predicting long-range interactions, and keeping the design supple.