"You aren't as smart as you think you are" is a cold, hard truth many people in this industry need to have a reckoning with. I don't think a person should be en

"You aren't as smart as you think you are" is a cold, hard truth many people in this industry need to have a reckoning with. I don't think a person should be entitled to anything above "senior developer" until and unless he or she has mentored juniors for some time. The most technically skilled individual on the planet is almost every time just one tiny contributor. Their mentoring of juniors acts as a multiplier of their own skill.