I once spent three days debugging a single line of code. When I finally found the missing semicolon, my team praised me as a “coding wizard.”

Let’s name the elephant in the server room: Our entire industry runs on imposter syndrome.

How it works:

• Tech giants invent new frameworks to keep developers perpetually behind
• Bootcamps sell “6-figure career” dreams to people who just learned what a div is
• LinkedIn influencers post “Day 427 of #100DaysOfCode” while pretending they didn’t start yesterday
• Recruiters demand 5 years of experience in tools that existed for 18 months

It’s not you — it’s a system designed to make you feel obsolete before your first commit.

I'd add the following: "everyone else" has more github projects and commits than you. "How much code have you done in this language" is wholly measured by what you can immediately show.

The first time you make a computer say “Hello World,” you’re not learning to code — you’re learning to hate yourself.

This will make my therapist's job easier