Everyone has different ides of what "detail oriented" means, and everyone's experience taints any advice they give on the matter. For example I've been program

Everyone has different ides of what "detail oriented" means, and everyone's experience taints any advice they give on the matter. For example I've been programming for 20 years, and with my favored languages I don't see "details" of the code at all; I mainly think in indentation shape and huge code block pattern recognition, with the internals of the patterns abstracted away and irrelevant. "Oh, this is just a request handler that reads a file." By sheer weight of experience I'd classify myself as a pretty "good" programmer, but I don't consider my programming style to be "details oriented" at all. Summarily I would suggest that a programmer worrying about being "details oriented" is a lot like a fresh lawyer agonizing about the fit of their suit. Stop worrying about it.