[kbenson]

On the bright side, that's am easy way to measure your growth. Look at it this way, if in six months or more if you look back on code you're writing now that's non-trivial and you can't think of a single thing you would do different what's more likely, that you were lucky/good enough to design it perfectly, or that you didn't actually learn anything from the experience (even if it's what assumptions about projects in that industry you shouldn't make going forward)?

I dread the day I no longer see progress. I suspect it's also about the time I'll really find programming no longer fun.