Advice for beginner programmers

It's possible for society to lose a competence it still needs because it's chasing the future. We have so much critical infrastructure, for example, that still runs on cobalt that about five humans around the world really understand truly deeply. I don't think any of the programmers who wrote that cobalt code back in the '7s had any damn idea that in 2025 checks were still being cut off the business logic that they had encoded back then.But that just brings me to the conclusion on the question for what shou ...