I thought I was hot shit (and not just me...my employers too) until I discovered people like Walter, Stepanov, and other boomers who know programming/computing

I thought I was hot shit (and not just me...my employers too) until I discovered people like Walter, Stepanov, and other boomers who know programming/computing at such a deeper level that it almost feels hopeless that I can attain the same level of knowledge. I'm confident that I will be a much better programmer decades in the future than I am now.