I'm mid-career, I guess, and these days I kinda feel like I've fucked up if I'm writing any serious amount of code, under most circumstances. The best solution

I'm mid-career, I guess, and these days I kinda feel like I've fucked up if I'm writing any serious amount of code, under most circumstances. The best solution is often a small script in the right place, leveraging existing software (when the best solution isn't "FFS, just pay a SaaS to take care of this, it's not even worth the time we've spent talking about it"). When I'm writing an actual project, I've got this nagging feeling like I just didn't know enough to avoid writing it. Like maybe I need to go RTFMs of the many battle-hardened daemons and OS components I have available and could be using. Any time I do achieve "10x" versus anyone else (and I think I sometimes do, though the broad "anyone else" makes that less impressive) it's usually because of what I didn't write.