Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?

Re:Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now? by johnnyfaehell on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:12PM (#24445622)

I think the main issue with imposter syndrome is everyone realises they suck but don't realise so does everyone else. If you look at the majority of private code bases in the world, they'll look like crap. Even the stuff getting leaked out of the major companies look like crap. Even some of the offical open source stuff coming out of the major companies get pulled apart for valid reason.

Everyone feels like they suck at programming, because they do, it's ok, everyone else sucks too.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now? by Ntrails on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:50PM (#24446070)

> If you look at the majority of private code bases in the world, they'll look like crap

I sometimes think that the first set of people working on most software are just trying to get it to work at all, with limited expertise and lots of duct tape. Then come some journeymen who have to add more things. And, well, when I am writing code it tends to look a lot like the stuff around it... things just get Progressively worse!

I am not a dev. I don't intentionally write bad code, but the code I write sometimes hits prod. I don't really know what "good" and "clean" really look like. Just "works" and "doesn't".

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