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by jen20 1020 days ago
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.

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Doing new things is experience. Repetition in one area is also experience. This concept you're describing is just made up.
Sorry, no. What you have just described is being a generalist vs a specialist.

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

> 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!

> 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.