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I don't have the imposter syndrom. I'm a legit imposter.
That's exactly what someone with imposter syndrome would say
pirate software?
Gotta be honest, was sure the last panel was gonna say: “hate JavaScript”.
Nice to be surprised on this sub once in a while.
I ain't holdin hands with no stinkin' JavaScript dev!
"Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with frontend."
"What about side by side with a friend?"
"Do you even have friend functions?"
Friend functions are cursed though, outside of like c++ operator overloading.
PHP and Java are things I definitely hate more than JavaScript (especially Java)
Well, yes. It is what happens when you are building on top of several abstraction layers. You have to pretend you know everything that is going on underneath, but the fact is that, without those libraries and frameworks we would have so much on our plate that we could not keep it all in our heads.
The goal of a lot of technological invention is to make things so that less work is required to be done in the future. Not having to reinvent the wheel is fine because the people who work to make these tools have a passion for providing the table on which we craft our own excellence. Not understanding all of our foundation is not something to be ashamed of. Rather, it is something to respect one another for.
25 years into my career, and it’s still going strong baby!
When I joined my company, I asked a co-worker who joined a year earlier after freshly graduating how often she still has to ask questions. She said if you go a day without asking questions as a new person, she'd assume you had gone through a day without getting work done.
Similar experience for me. When I first joined my company as an intern, I asked one of my coworkers how long it took him until he started feeling comfortable with what he knew. He said: "Well, I've been here for four years and I still don't."
I lost when I realized how bad many of the more experienced programmers are
This, either people in this board are severely autistic or they don't have jobs, or they are actual imposters.
Imposter syndrome is something you develop in a vacuum, when you have no reference.
As soon as you start working with other people you will see that many are completely incompetent, but also some are decent, and a few are excellent, and you can place yourself in the spectrum somewhere.
If you think everyone else is a "wizard" and you can't understand what they are doing and feel like an imposter, well yeah it's more than just a feeling buddy, it's true.
But don't fret imposters can climb the ladder as easy as anyone else, it's all about bootlicking anyway.
A lot of new grad FAANG hires also end up with imposter syndrome, though.
And? Memorizing leetcode so you can be accepted in FAANG, doesn't mean you are a good programmer.
This is a secret, but I actually don't really understand why people would pay me to do programming.
I'm not sure I'd even hire myself 😆
It can help if you understand how bad so many programmers are. I've seen a lot of awful juniors. I've seen more than a few awful seniors too. I've seen expensive consultants brought in who can't write anything meaningful in the language they're meant to work in. Perhaps significantly, or perhaps as a proof of the Dunning-Kruger principle, most of them don't think of themselves as bad programmers.
A study back in 2018 by Microsoft said that one-third of programmers were functionally code-illiterate: they couldn't debug even a very simple problem.
You might be a mediocre programmer. I don't know. But the reason why other people would pay you to do programming is that a lot of programmers are far worse than you.
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Great painters look to nature for inspiration.
Great devs look to stackoverflow.
We are the same.
Will we ever be as good as the old masters?
I'm just bad at programming
Amen to that lmao
It's actually hatred for PHP and JavaScript
True
Aids.
And when that imposter syndrome is gone, I feel like something is wrong, and I'm missing something.
I had it at some point, but I realized with the way things are now none of us can possibly be under-qualified
It's funny watching some people be like
"Akshually, i know the right way to do everything because I was told the one, all knowing truth and any other open-ended method with trade offs and pros/cons is wrong because it wasn't included when I was taught the one true way 🤓🤓🤓"
Some people cope with their insecurities by projecting it onto others to try and feel better about themselves, and it's the most insufferable thing ever
(Like at least half of php's community sadly)
If the job is done, it doesn't matter
I mean nobody has as bad of a case of imposter syndrome as the one who has been a developer for 2 decades and decided to abandon it because Gen AI will replace them.
Yikes, that one hits home.
This bug is called ‘imposter syndrome’, and it seems like we're all fixing it in team mode.
The simple fix is to never learn enough to know how much you don't know
Sokka-Haiku by IdeaOrdinary48:
The simple fix is
To never learn enough to
Know how much you don't know
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
I guess I can make normal haiku by removing 'The'
Simple fix is to never learn enough to know how much you don't know
You learn that by trying to do something.
Stop doing anything duh
Just stand firmly on Mount Stupid, defending it like king of the hill