This is a brief story about the best programmer I've ever worked with.
A few years ago I worked with a celebrity developer who wrote the book on an entire category of technical pursuit.
This was pre-ChatGPT, and this rare human could produce entire applications overnight even in languages they didn't know well that worked perfectly and appeared idiomatically written.
In a one on one I asked if this person ever got stuck or frustrated despite their abnormal skill level and many decades of experience.
Their response?
"All the time".
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