Experts Have It Easy...

My first project in Accenture was a Java applet. Under my tutelage it grew to over 1000 classes. Then I left the project and a senior engineer on the project rewrote the thing in 13 classes. That was a beautiful lesson (and a relief that no one would have to maintain that pile of spaghetti!)…

In this field you have to be comfortable with and accept you may not know everything - fail forward, keep learning and iterating always. In order to write 'good' code you probably had to write 'bad' code, it's all apart of the process And most importantly have fun and don't be too hard on yourself

this article was very frustrating to listen to. It feels like the author expects others to be responsable for the author's learning, and is so scared of making mistakes that he would rather nag someone about every minute detail of the code instead of risking the chance that the decsions he took were not the "correct" ones according to the "experts".

This article is describing a symptom of being a "novice", but not the solution. It is true that novices are often oblivious of the tools and techniques to solve their problem, and are often apparently incapable of even recognizing possible solutions, however they are not robbed of their agency. The way you push through that in the short term is that you research and read documentation so that you learn what others have done and what tools and techniques you could avail yourself of and then you force your way through the maze until you gain experience. The way "novice" and "junior" developers stay "novice" and "junior" is when they reach these confused states of not know how to solve the problem, and then sit down and wait for some well-meaning senior to come along and tell them what to do. They then, instead of using that as a general guide and researching it to understand why this is maybe a good approach and the surrounding information on this tool/technique, they plow blindly ahead in the new direction they were pointed out until they once again hit a brick wall. Don't be that guy. You will never improve unless you take the action to learn and improve.

That comment about socializing is so relatable, I used to be quite sociable in high school, I know everyone in my grade and most people in my grade know me, because I've interacted with many circles, first year of college I asked a girl out on orientation day when the first semester hadn't even started. then fast forward 2 semester later I almost dropped out due to quarter life crisis, shut myself up the entire pandemic era and I literally forgot how to start a conversation.

08:31 Look at this man dancing with his mic in a truly passionate way

Right Hand Wall Rule is maze talk for Depth First Search

Counter point to the solitary learning. Even though you learned "alone" by looking for stuff on the internet, that stuff did not appeared out of the ether, someone somewhere wrothe that down and then you found it, another person helped you even though you never met them

The paving slabs on the road to success, are made of 'managed failures' and the border flowers are "oppsie daisies.".

I just realized ThePrimeTime just loves to list all possible outcomes of hypotetical situations he talks. he is such a programmer-minded person that he creates a switch-case of any random conversation.