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by Strom 3063 days ago
I have 18 years of programming experience and it's definitely still true for me. [1] Unless I get some brain degenerative disease, I fully expect to keep improving at least until I'm 80 years old.

I've also seen this echoed by even more senior developers, e.g. this tweet by John Carmack: It is scary to look in some old code that hasn’t been touched in years, and see a completely non-thread-safe static global variable used. [2]

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[1] My code quality is improving all the time. However I'm more accustomed to my emotions and fully expect progress, so I'm not exactly embarrassed.

[2] https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/339406631613890560