I wouldn't overthink this, no ones expecting a new hire to instantly pick up the codebase. You mentioned you only got generic advice from the other developer, d

I wouldn't overthink this, no ones expecting a new hire to instantly pick up the codebase. You mentioned you only got generic advice from the other developer, did you ask generic questions? It's difficult to answer vague questions. Most importantly I wouldn't extrapolate your experience at this company to sweeping generalizations about how smart you are - there's close to 0 correlation. Just focus on breaking down problems into manageable chunks. I can't emphasize this enough. As for FastAPI specifically I'd check out the sample postgresql project tiangalo made, it's incredibly well put together. [1] https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql https://github.com/tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql