How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

I feel like a lot of people here are missing the point of the article. I've worked with several 'expert beginners' over my career. They think they're near the skill ceiling, but they're actually much closer to the bottom. They rose through the ranks despite not being particularly great at their jobs, and now find themselves having to indoctrinate others into their way of doing things. Any suggestion on how to improve the process is usually met with some form…

If you work in an average company who hires average people and you are well above average you quickly risk becoming exactly that. You can be the top 5% (I know it's subjective and controversial yet I'm sure we all have a clue what that means) of developers and this will make it likely for you to be that "local maximum" as everyone will see you internally as a guru. But at companies who are employing the top 5% of…

What that tells us is to design development environments for the expert beginner. Expert beginners are cost-effective. Competence and expertise in web development is not cost effective. By the time someone reaches the expert level, the technology in which they are an expert is obsolete. Like Java programmers.[1] [1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3195285/java-and-c-continu...

My version of imposter syndrome is worrying I'm actually an expert beginner. How can one ever really know? I have some risk factors: I've been in a small team at the same company for over a decade, I have some pretty strong opinions about the way things should be done (at least for the kinds of projects I work on), and I dislike and avoid most of popular frameworks out there (not because they're popular, but because they aren't aligned…