I'm in the same boat right now. I'm an average programmer who's been doing it for around 6-7 years.

Most HN posts are way technical for me, but there's a lot of other good tech news on here.

I'm interviewing now and I feel like I chose the wrong career because leetcode is a requirement everywhere. I graduated 10 years ago and didn't even know what leetcode was until around 5 years ago. Although to be fair I wasn't taking programming as a career very seriously during my degree which was in CS, I have to embarrassingly admit.