[einhverfr]

> It wasn't something important to me for a long time since I did other stuff instead, but coming back to programming in an effort to make a career out of it, a lot of that stuff became instantly obvious & I felt foolish for not recognizing it in the first place.

I think one of the key things experienced programmers finally get is that we never stop understanding that there are things which we are doing sub-optimally and can continue to be reflective and self-critical of that. How can I structure my code better? How can I solve this software development problem that seems to come up frequently?

And then as we solve them, the solutions seem so obvious we wonder why we didn't realize it sooner.