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Started coding in 1987. Have no idea what I’m doing. Regularly panic about how little I must know. Can’t figure out if people giving advice and writing books ar
by randomsearch 7y ago
Started coding in 1987. Have no idea what I’m doing. Regularly panic about how little I must know. Can’t figure out if people giving advice and writing books are genuinely a lot better than me, or just more confident.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoIt's very funny... I bet you have no problems explaining complex problems to the Junior and Senior developers, and receive high marks for knowing highly technical details. I wonder if there is a correlation between amount of knowledge and Impostor syndrome kinda like the four stages of competence. At the beginning, you may think you know a lot but as you get further along, there's less and less confidence that comes with more knowledge.
- rlonn 7y agoHaha, same here (but I started -81-82). Love programming but get my kicks out of running code in production, not written code in a repo, so I'm always in a hurry to ship and usually don't have time to learn the new, shiny tech and practises. Which makes me feel out of date, ignorant, impostor:ish. But then I realise (or tell myself?) that I'm shipping working functionality way faster than most, and that I can't be so bad. I think.