Staff engineers how do you become better coders?
I feel like I’ve hit a wall in my learning and growth. I’ve done YouTube university and go to local meetup events but it’s all very basic stuff. How do you guys break past that barrier and become a better and more proficient programmer?
Learning to read code. If you can read code quickly and understand it thoroughly, you can solve almost any problem. You create more impact in code reviews and leverage open source stuff more effectively
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Read books "clean code" "effect java" "effective go" do more code reviews of your team members. Type some code in chat gpt and ask for review. That will give some good output suggestions. Remember those suggestions and apply those patterns in your code.
I try to take up tasks that are more technical. Ex - learn more deeply how state management works in react-redux, design choices made within that, read some of their code and design patterns. I try to not spend too much time into other process/management stuff
Same way as any other level. However, coding is less important than soft skills like leadership and influence, design doc writing, etc. There are definitely people on the team at lower levels that are better coders.
There is no shortcut.. Find time to get your hands dirty by writing some code that you’ve not written before.
This.