Boy, I feel this. I am also a 0.5x programmer. I write dead-simple C; I don't even touch web development, which I consider more complex than C development with

Boy, I feel this. I am also a 0.5x programmer. I write dead-simple C; I don't even touch web development, which I consider more complex than C development with Valgrind. In fact, I've spent nearly 3 years writing a build system. That's how slow I am, and it's made some acquaintances laugh at how long I've worked without result. But in reality, I'm not just building a build system. I'm also building my own stack, a la [1], including replacing as much of libc as I can and changing the OS API's I use. I think that soon enough, this stack and this simplicity will become my superpowers and make me a 10x programmer. Being a stupid programmer means you won't be clever. And if you're not clever, you will be able to debug it, even though it is twice as hard to debug than to write. [2] Good debugging is a superpower in itself. [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM https://youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM [2]: https://www.defprogramming.com/quotes-by/brian-w-kernighan/ https://www.defprogramming.com/quotes-by/brian-w-kernighan/