This article continues to propagate the misconception that young is the same thing as inexperienced.

We can assume the two are so strongly correlated that it's not worth it to differentiate. Even though many exceptions exist.

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charcircuit 6 days ago | parent [-]

I don't think it's true at all. Considering it only takes 2 to 3 years to rack up the 10,000 hours to "master" something, young people can get very good at a lot of things. The biggest barrier in my opinion are child labor laws that get in the way of people getting experience.

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iammrpayments 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you do something 80 hours per week for 2 years it totals 8320 hours? This is far from average behavior even if you have nothing else to do except coding.

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brazukadev 6 days ago | parent [-]

Yes. That is why we have many 18 years old better at programming than fresh graduates. Teenagers have a lot of free time to code.

	▲	mrheosuper 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I will be extremely concerned if my teenage boy spending >10 hours everyday, in 2 years, just sitting in front of computer screen.

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lelanthran 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I don't think it's true at all. Considering it only takes 2 to 3 years to rack up the 10,000 hours to "master" something, young people can get very good at a lot of things.

They can, if they practice with feedback 8 hours a day.

Typically, young people, as a group, are not famous for practicing something 8 hours a day.

This means, for the group as a whole, it is true.

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notTooFarGone 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The audacity to paint child labor laws as a "barrier for experience"...

Children can work open source and rack up experience there. This is like the most humane way in any job ever to get experience as a minor.

	▲	charcircuit 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In practice they will not just do open source and people will exploit them for free work since there are significant barriers to access employers able to pay market rate. Even open source itself can potentially be exploitative due to being free work. While open source may be okay for coding, there are other skills which may not be so easy to do from your own home. In practice they will not just do open source and people will exploit them for free work

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programjames 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think you are referring to

> The strategic thinking that goes into longer-horizon tasks may be something LLMs aren’t as good at, which aligns with why entry-level workers are more affected than experienced workers.

I think the article is talking in generalities, so on average entry-level software engineers have less experience with long-horizon tasks (e.g. months-long development), though there are definitely the exceptions that prove this rule.