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by teakettle42 1407 days ago
> there is no learning after a certain amount of years of coding (I would argue at 4-5 years of good/varied experience mark).

If you stopped learning after 4-5 years in the field, the barrier you hit wasn’t the lack of new things to learn. It was your own ability to learn them.

> I would argue that the idea that the human brain can hold ten years of programming information to be absolutely absurd.

You’re demonstrating the ignorant hubris of youth quite successfully.

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To be generous, if we're talking coding specifically, 4-5 years is a reasonable cap in my opinion.

Coding is not the same thing as software engineering or systems/architecture design or technical leadership or... All of those things can be improved significantly through a human lifespan. The act of writing code? Not so much.

The other caveat is that most people will not be getting enough experience to hit that cap in 5 years. You need the right environment, mentors, etc.