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spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42164682[source]
I have about 6 months of coding experience. All I really knew was how to build a basic MERN app

I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to code and I’ve managed to build multiple full fledged apps, including paid ones

Maybe they’re not perfect, but they work and I’ve had no complaints yet. They might not scale to become the next Facebook, but not everything has to scale

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rlty_chck ◴[] No.42165482[source]
Every time I see claims like this, I instinctively click on the user's profile and try to verify if their story checks out.

>I played around a lot with code when I was younger. I built my first site when I was 13 and had a good handle on Javascript back when jQuery was still a pipe dream.

>Started with the Codecademy Ruby track which was pretty easy. Working through RailsTutorial right now.

posted on April 15, 2015, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382537

>I've been freelancing since I was 17. I've dabbled in every kind of online trade imaginable, from domain names to crypto. I've built and sold multiple websites. I also built and sold a small agency.

>I can do some marketing, some coding, some design, some sales, but I'm not particularly good at any of those in isolation.

posted on Jan 20, 2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34459482

So I don't really understand where this claim of only "6 months of coding experience" is coming from, when you clearly have been coding on and off for multiple decades.

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spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42165568[source]
you do know that there are other kinds of freelancing apart from coding, right?
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azemetre ◴[] No.42165687[source]
I think the comment is fair. The poster came across as inexperienced with programming when in reality they have a decade plus experience.

I trust experience people can make better use of these tools because ideally they should have a foundation of first principles to work off of whereas inexperienced people jumping straight into LLMs may not be fully understanding what is happening or what they are given.

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1. spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.42165847[source]
I don’t have a decade of coding experience. I do have almost two decades of internet experience, especially marketing. I had an aborted attempt at learning to code back in 2013-14, but I never stuck around, mostly because I was freelancing as a content marketer (GrowthPub.com)

My first real coding experience was when I joined a bootcamp (Code.in bootcamp) in 2022. Only reason I could stick around this time was because I had a chunk of change after selling my agency and had nothing else to do

I’m a humanities grad for what its worth