I am a younger developer (3 years) who has been fortunate enough to be given a lot of responsibility in the projects I work in. I spend most of my time teaching myself what I need to know or have to know for the job. I realized I currently don't learn much from my surrounding peers (small team: 2 other senior level developers). To increase velocity, my company recently contracted some of the work for our project. And from my experience working with these contractors I have learned new things that I wouldn't have gotten from my peers or teaching myself.
How important is it to learn from your peers or be surrounded by peers that you can learn from?
