Thread by @refactorfiend

imho, the senior / junior comparison is moot

but questions like this are asked a lot in the community, and i challenge myself on it:

Q: what is really the edge i would give *myself* over the junior developer, 10 yrs ago, version *myself* ?

A: i have more humility as a "senior" about what i might not know, more awareness of what might be my own blind spots

and not by any moral virtue over my junior self

i've just been bitten enough times by being "sure" of something, only to be proved wrong

humility and awareness opens me up to different ways of doing things. different possibilities. and at the end of the day, generally speaking - better, more useful code, designs, and skills

as time passes i am quicker to take the position that - a) whoever is on the other side of an argument, with whatever title, knows something that i don't know, and that - b) time is the best teacher

the prerequisite to this is that a person actually wants to accept and adopt the best and brightest ideas from others, who hold whatever title, at the expense of the stroking of his or her own ego

and that's a whole 'nother story 🙄

on the flip side, sometimes i question myself about whether or not i was hungrier then. but no - im just as hungry if not hungrier, just that the hunger is a bit more particular about what i will, or have time to eat, so to speak

so like i said imho, the senior/junior comparison is moot - fuck a title - it comes down to having respect, empathy, compassion for, and collaboration with the people you work with - in all directions. up, down, to the left and right of the org chart - senior to junior to senior

but that's just me. one guy one pov. thx for letting me ramble, now back to coding and gaming and parenting and the so called adulting us "seniors" do on 2020 Saturday afternoons 😅😋😆 respek szeein 🙏🏾

what do you guys think about the whole comparison and the debates around it?

i am very open to hear other perspectives on it.