It sounds like you've found an awesome learning environment, and I bet in a year (or whenever, depending on when this happened in your life) you will look back

It sounds like you've found an awesome learning environment, and I bet in a year (or whenever, depending on when this happened in your life) you will look back and see just how limited your knowledge was at that time. Learning software development is a rabbit-hole that never ends. Anyone can look back, see their own dumb mistakes, and recognize that even they, with X years of experience, still didn't fully "get it". I think it's that kind of feeling which leads people to criticize these development schools. Of course this isn't unique to software development; it's a feature of every vocation. But many other vocations do a much better job acknowledging and addressing the difficulty of attaining expertise, and have a great respect for experience that seems to be lacking in the startup world.