> Programming doesn't get much easier with experience, the idea that it's "as easy as eating cookies" only happens in dreams.
Doesn't match my experience. 20 years after starting my career, I can now write simpler code, build better abstractions, produce fewer bugs, and achieve higher performance in less time spent than when I started. The more time I spend programming, the more those statements are true. That's why it's so incredibly rewarding and frankly addictive. It's a positive feedback loop with seemingly no upper bound. More time invested yields more skills and better results.
Of course many parts of programming are still difficult. Concurrency and distributed systems take a ton of mental energy. But those parts were simply inaccessible to me when I first started my career. Now I can actually make progress.
Doesn't match my experience. 20 years after starting my career, I can now write simpler code, build better abstractions, produce fewer bugs, and achieve higher performance in less time spent than when I started. The more time I spend programming, the more those statements are true. That's why it's so incredibly rewarding and frankly addictive. It's a positive feedback loop with seemingly no upper bound. More time invested yields more skills and better results.
Of course many parts of programming are still difficult. Concurrency and distributed systems take a ton of mental energy. But those parts were simply inaccessible to me when I first started my career. Now I can actually make progress.