The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and quality of abstraction

Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by AussieWog93 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @04:02AM (#26931106)

There are plenty of ways to gauge potential. Does one of the 8 year olds kick the ball extremely accurately? Can he run around significantly longer than his peers without getting tired? When teaching him skills through drilling, how quickly does he improve? Does he show a dogged perseverence when training or get bored and want to just fuck around?

There is an entire industry of talent scouts that predict the performance of kids as young as 12, and many of them are good at what they do.

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Re:The difficulty of programming depends on the layer and qu... by vladmk on Sunday April 25, 2021 @12:47PM (#26934155)

Yup and what good does that do them? Look at sports, how often does the childhood prodigy turn into the adult phenom? Very very rarely.

So even your example with kids is false, there’s a book talking about this fetishism called Late Bloomers. I encourage you to check it out.

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