> These fucking algorithms are killing me, and making me have a hard realization that maybe I'm just not cut out for this. Yea, I've built shit... but you know

> These fucking algorithms are killing me, and making me have a hard realization that maybe I'm just not cut out for this. Yea, I've built shit... but you know what... anyone could. I wouldn't get too discouraged about this: they couldn't - not necessarily anything of value anyway. I've worked enough places now where the product the business is built on was written by somebody who wasn't necessarily a great programmer, yet this "bad"[1] code is the foundation of the company's success and may be the sole reason they're able to pay me. You can build a really successful business on really "shitty" tech. [1] Inefficient, non-scalable, hard to follow, poorly architected, spaghetti code - call it what you will.