i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

  • I Cast Fist
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    711 year ago

    Psst, don’t tell anyone, but we’re all dumbasses pretending we know shit

    • Square Singer
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      401 year ago

      If Stackoverflow and Google go down for a week at the same time, we are all out of a job. And the whole world burns.

      • mintiefresh
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        191 year ago

        Everyone says ChatGPT can’t tell if it’s wrong. Well neither can I!

    • @Sheltac
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      101 year ago

      Speak for yourself.

      I don’t even pretend.

    • @RojoSanIchiban
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      91 year ago

      Hay! I know things!!!

      Like, uh, javascript sucks! Haha, amirite!?

      (But no really I hate js so much)

      • DarkenLM
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        Between JS and VB.NET, give me JS anytime, even if it’s ES3.

        But modern JS is way better than what it was a decade ago. It’s a pretty solid language now.

        • @RojoSanIchiban
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          31 year ago

          Given I have to work relatively often in legacy VB, I wholeheartedly agree. But I’d kill to be working in C# instead.

          Strongly typed is life!

  • Rhaedas
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    171 year ago

    Realizing you may not know something isn’t a bad thing, it’s a step to understanding. The people who think they know it all regardless of the evidence presented are the problem ones.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Both! You’re probably a lot better than you give yourself credit for but also haven’t made enough mistakes yet to see the error of your code

  • @MasterBlaster
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    91 year ago

    There are five levels of competence

    1. Incompetent and doesn’t know it.
    2. Incompetent and does know it.
    3. Competent and doesn’t know it.
    4. Competent, and knows it.
    5. Expert, but still often feels clueless.
    • @Weirdfish
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      41 year ago

      I have 20 years experience, just cracked a project I’ve been working on for almost three years, and I still hesitate to consider myself an expert.

      Now, I’ll tell any lay person who will listen that I’m an expert, but man, some days I just feel clueless.

      I find the biggest issue I run into is lack of a peer group. I work in a large IS department, but other than one guy at my last company who works with a different language, I have no one to talk shop with.

      • @MasterBlaster
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        Once one gets to a high level of expertise, it seems there are fewer peers around - people who can teach something new, or give a perspective not already explored.

        It all depends on where you work, and whether there are any user groups frequented by veterans.

  • @Jackolantern
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    91 year ago

    We don’t know shit. It’s just some of us are better at pretending otherwise. Just do your best OP.

  • @[email protected]
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    We all are. Even the tech lead at the top of your program is only good at what they’re good at (bad attempt at humor removed) Nobody knows everything and most of us are just googling stackoverflow like you are.

    • @seukari
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      81 year ago

      As a female tech lead, its comforting to know I don’t exist!

    • @[email protected]
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      Rhetoric like this discourages women from becoming engineers, saying that a female tech lead isn’t even a possibility is pretty sexist. For the record, if you had just said “he” without the sassy parenthetical I wouldn’t have batted an eye.

      *Now that I think about it, pretty sexist is an understatement, it’s just plain sexist. Female tech leads exist, look it up, and stop perpetuating sexist ideas in tech

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I apologize. That was meant to be a humorous commiseration on the state of a profession that tends to be gender biased, but clearly I missed.

        • @seukari
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          21 year ago

          Just noticed this, fair play to you! Sorry for the misunderstanding :)

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    We are human and we don’t know everything.

    You most likely have gotten to the level for a position, for which you then build into and become more skilled.

    You don’t arrive to a position (or anything for that matter) knowing everything. But you know enough to begin.

  • The Giant Korean
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    Just became a director not too long ago. I’m still waiting for them to realize that I don’t know WTF I’m doing.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    When you’re a beginner, it’s both. The further you get into your career, it’s usually imposter syndrome. Then again the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

  • @Rolando
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    41 year ago

    Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something.