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The Stack Overflow Podcast
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How to Get a Grizzled Experienced Engineer to Operate on His Shoulder
In tech, developers don't have a way to practice. The only way to practice is on the job. But what happens when you practice on the job? First of all, it's very slow. You know, it's going to take you years to gain the initial experience. After that, it's even slower because the more seasoned you are, the less likely you are to combine new types of scenarios. People make catastrophic mistakes. And then another thing we noticed is that everything else that has to do with training of developers is usually top down and developers hate it. So we thought to ourselves, all right, we're looking for a way for developers to practice and it has to be
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