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> That hasn't been the experience for me. I have much fewer questions now than I had when I started to program 30 years ago.

I would guess poster above doesn't yet have 30 years experience. Perhaps 10 or less.

My experience echoes both yours and the above poster's - following a sort of bell curve - after initial ramp up, there was a significant period where every question led to several more. At some point that peaked, and by the time I'd been writing code for 20 years the rate of questions was dropping quickly.

Also the character of problems changed a lot. There's a point where QA sites like StackOverflow become largely useless for your problems, as they're too broad, complex, and dependent on specifics to fit the QA format. Even relevant blogs and academic papers become thin after 20 years.