The parent could be stating that late twenties is the average age of startup founders, not that that they are in their late twenties themselves.<p>I do agree with you that someone who claims to pick up new languages in a week should already have picked up a few languages. The grandparent says they only do the _majority_ of their programming in Java, so perhaps they have that covered. I&#x27;d love to know what the other languages they&#x27;ve chosen are, and their dissimilarity to Java.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to evaluate their claim that they&#x27;re a really_good programmer, given that it&#x27;s a throwaway account. But then, given the data of this article, I guess no one does.