Just like a founder is often not the best runtime CEO, a founder is often not the best programmer. "A few months" is short of the required experience for a seni

Just like a founder is often not the best runtime CEO, a founder is often not the best programmer. "A few months" is short of the required experience for a senior software engineer by an order of magnitude. Engineers without experience cause debt that makes the code cost more to maintain over time. All of this is true. Why did you start up in the first place? To change the world, or to have a place to hang out, or to learn things? Is there another place you can do that better now, at less cost? Either find a niche where you are creating significant value in the current state of things, or get out to make room. Ask for a negotiated agreement with accelerated vesting of your options if you're not already owning.