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Re:Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer by gamblor956 on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:03PM (#31441307)
To second that, the best programmers I know are quite upfront about how much they don't know.

This can have the paradoxical effect of people relying on them less in situations where they should, because they think the 10x doesn't know anything, and instead they turn to the braggart 1/10x programmer who claims he knows everything. (Not meaning the OP on this; I just know a guy IRL who is exactly this.)

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Re:Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer by leaflets2 on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:15AM (#31443947)
Mistaking confidence for competence.

(It seems to me, though, that OP is both competent and reasonably confident, a good combination.)

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