I usually find most of the learning happens a year later when I see if my approach is maintainable and handles new requirements. When I'm actually coding, I'm

I usually find most of the learning happens a year later when I see if my approach is maintainable and handles new requirements. When I'm actually coding, I'm usually not learning as much, because I'm generally intentionally choosing boring tech everyone already knows. Most of the learning is less about deeply internalizing concepts and more about things like new features in the Python stdlib.