Few weeks ago I gave a talk in the annually Geektime developers conference. I’ve decided to write a post about the topic. You can find the slides here and the video of the talk here. In 2018 I’ve gave this talk again in the annually Amsterdam Codemotion developers conference.
Expert Beginners
Being a developer is a long journey. It begins right after you learn to code and start your first job. This journey has different phases. Junior, senior and expert are part of the those phases that a developer may go through. Today I want to talk about another phase. It is a tricky phase which is really hard to spot.
You probably know those developers who are always full of confidence, they can describe the product that they are building and the problem it solves, they can explain their architecture and they know the advantages of their technology stack. They can talk about their tools, frameworks and infrastructure — they use them every day. They love them.
But they don’t know how they work. They don’t know the internals and how these tools were built, or in which case they should not use them, the disadvantages of these tools. They are absolutely sure that there is nothing better than what they know. Their tools are silver bullets for them and for everybody else.
