You want the Dr who has done the operation 10 times, and learned something each time, and incorporated that into their future efforts. You probably don’t want a Dr who will do their 11th surgery on you exactly the way they did the first.

This is what that saying is about

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stephen_cagle 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Fair enough. I guess I am making a bit of a straw-man in that I feel I just don't buy the idea that doing the same thing 10 times over the course of 10 years is somehow worse than doing different things over the course of 10 years. They are signals, and depending on what we are attempting, they just mean different expected outcomes. One isn't necessarily worse than another, but in this case it seems to be implying it is the distinction between Midlevel and Senior.

	▲	KronisLV 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I just don't buy the idea that doing the same thing 10 times over the course of 10 years is somehow worse than doing different things over the course of 10 years. I always read it as making the same mistakes as you initially did and either failing to learn from them or not even trying to improve. Maybe you haven’t even explored enough approaches to see what actually works and what doesn’t and most importantly, in which circumstances. For example, someone might do CI/CD with manually created pipelines in Jenkins (the web UI variety) with stuff like JDK configured directly on the runner nodes. They might never have written a Jenkinsfile, or tried out Docker for builds and therefore are slow and have to deal with brittle plugins and environment configuration. They might also be unaware of how GitHub Actions could benefit them, or the more focused approach of GitLab CI or even how nice Woodpecker CI can be, especially for simpler setups.
	▲	coldtea 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>Fair enough. I guess I am making a bit of a straw-man in that I feel I just don't buy the idea that doing the same thing 10 times over the course of 10 years is somehow worse than doing different things over the course of 10 years. Different things doesn't need to mean "different domains" which is how you read it. It can be "things revealing different aspect/failure cases of the same domain" too. If someone has done the same narrow kind of CRUD app 10 times, they're not CRUD-app experts - they never seen lots of different aspects of CRUD apps.

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NDizzle 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I want the doctor who has performed the operation and was still with the hospital in 6m, 12m, 18m, 24m to see the results of the operations that they performed.

Not the one who does a few operations and is never around to see the results of their decisions and actions.