Wild that I'm like, a senior developer or whatever. I know I know my stuff, but it's weird having junior devs ask me for help, and then are noticeably nervous about showing me their code

maybe this is the next impostor syndrome hurdle

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@regal Funny thing is, impostor syndrome never ends. Senior devs just get better at pretending they've got their shit together and learn to ask the good dumb questions upfront.

Internally, I am just as nervous with people as I was 10-15y ago, just as raw about forced human interaction to get work done, but it's layered under practiced neurons to carefully ask simple things. And it works, and folks act reverent towards it, which is the weirdest feeling in the world.

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