[the-grump]

To offer a counterpoint, I had much better intuition as a junior than I do now, and it was also better than the seniors on my team.

Sometimes looking at the same type of code and the same infra day in and day out makes you rusty. In my olden days, I did something different every week, and I had more free time to experiment.

[baq]

Hobby coding is imho a high entropy signal that you joined the workforce with a junior title but basically senior experience, which is what I see from kids who learned programming young due to curiosity vs those who only started learning in university. IOW I suspect you were not a junior in anything but name and pay.

There’s also a factor of the young being very confident that they’re right ;)

[fastball]

So you are a worse dev now than you were before? Have you asked for a pay cut from your employer?

[baq]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

;)

[the-grump]

Believe it or not, my employer likes what I'm doing so I'm still on the promotion track.

They seem more concerned with my ability to work on the company's bread and butter.

[arthurcolle]

pay increase - with better tools, I'd imagine