What is a talented programmer media? Do you mean that your friends read the stories of so called genius programmers and were discouraged? It’s possible to achieve a lot in theoretical math and physics for a young person. But almost impossible for any serious engineering. Engineering consists of many details.
Discussion
Yes that’s exactly what I mean.
I think it is a bias though. Media like the story of young and successful.
And if the target is successful(in a society level), it is always easy to be discouraged.
Nostr gives me a very very good change to watch closely that how brilliant developers work. Byte by byte, step by step.