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I started learning to code at 29 (I'm 37 now). I just went to codecademy and didn't stop. It seemed too good to be true but it works. I've been working as a software dev since 2018, currently work at an AI startup.

The core brains here are a few machine learning scientists who are more of the prodigy type, very very smart, and 10 years younger than me. But you don't need to be a prodigy to be useful. They also need people to figure out what the client wants, take messy data and clean it, make a front end UI that doesn't suck.



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