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"Get off my lawn you damn kids!"

Today's novice is tomorrow's expert.

No matter how much of an expert you think you are, you are a novice to someone else.

If we go back and look at your code from X years ago (or even last week), are you going to be comfortable or are you going to squirm a little and want to make excuses for certain things?

Bad code making it into production and causing problems for users is not the fault of the novice developer, it's the fault of their team lead/manager. Who shouldn't be a novice. If they are then that's an organizational problem, and not one caused by the mere existence of novices.