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I can tell you what the difference isn't. It's neither about age nor experience. And I'm saying this as an old fart who has been doing this for 25+ years.

Sure, time helps, if you learn from your mistakes, both in engineering and life itself.

But I've seen 40 year old developers who I would consider juniors in every way that matters, and 20-somethings who I would trust to take the role of lead developer.




One problem is sometimes people who have 10 years of experience really have 1 year of experience repeated 10 times.

Also communication ability. Most coders cant.


Would like to know how you would differentiate.




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