[alex_lav]

This seems like nothing more than a desire to gatekeep experience? Being employed as a programmer means you're gaining experience...Even if you work at a single company for 20 years, you're not going to get some mythical competence that you could only get by staying in one area. This line of thinking seems like nonsense.

[jen20]

Whether you have a single year of experience 10 times (or whatever ratio you experience) is orthogonal to whether you work for the same company.

Being employed as a programmer may or may not gain you new experience (which is what matters if you are to be a good generalist). Whether it does depends on whether you are _doing things new to you_ while being employed.

[alex_lav]

Doing new things is experience. Repetition in one area is also experience. This concept you're describing is just made up.

[jen20]

Sorry, no. What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.

Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition.

[alex_lav]

> What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.

Sorry, no. Those concepts are unrelated to what we're describing.

> Also, all concepts are “made up”. By definition.

I was trying to be polite. Made up by you and nonsensical, is the more accurate phrasing. Respectfully. But I'll be stopping here. Enjoy the day!

[jen20]

> Those concepts are unrelated to what we're describing.

No they aren’t. They’re literally the subject of the conversation before you joined it.