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I agree, there's a difference between having 10 years of experience and having 1 year of experience repeated 10 times doing the same thing. Me, personally, I enjoy learning a lot and I get restless if I don't feel I'm developing my skills and keeping current.

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You do realize that you're basically dismissing experts because they specialize instead of learning the basics for another technology each year. Or has one year become enough to be an expert on something?

Experts learn.

Learn what? A new thing every year? How do they become experts then?

Just because you learn a new language or technology doesn't mean you become better at problem solving. It just means that you can solve problems using a different tool.

They become expert in problem solving.

They learn, for instance, about new developments in their field of expertise, and about more practices and tools they can leverage.

I didn't read that post that way... I don't think "the same year of experience repeated 10 times" actually leads to expertise. That phrase, at least the way I've always used it and the way I feel I've seen it used, is more like saying "somebody who just keeps doing the same thing over and over again and doesn't even attempt to learn anything new". Ie, it isn't just about not learning new skills, it also includes not improving existing skills and knowledge.

At least, that's the way I always interpreted it.

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