[rlty_chck]

Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out.

>I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream.

>Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now.

posted on April 15, 2015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537

>I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency.

>I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation.

posted on Jan 20, 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482

So I don't really understand where this claim of only "6 months of coding experience" is coming from, when you clearly have been coding on and off for multiple decades.

[spaceman_2020]

you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?

[azemetre]

I think the comment is fair. The poster came across as inexperienced with programming when in reality they have a decade plus experience.

I trust experience people can make better use of these tools because ideally they should have a foundation of first principles to work off of whereas inexperienced people jumping straight into LLMs may not be fully understanding what is happening or what they are given.

[spaceman_2020]

I don’t have a decade of coding experience. I do have almost two decades of internet experience, especially marketing. I had an aborted attempt at learning to code back in 2013-14, but I never stuck around, mostly because I was freelancing as a content marketer (GrowthPub.com)

My first real coding experience was when I joined a bootcamp (Code.in bootcamp) in 2022. Only reason I could stick around this time was because I had a chunk of change after selling my agency and had nothing else to do

I’m a humanities grad for what its worth