When I First Started Programming

When I first started programming, I thought everyone else was better than me at coding. I read about something new and thought I should do that too because they must know better.

Then my skills improved a little bit. I wrote my own solutions and rejected what others said because I knew better.

Then I gained experience. I trusted my judgement and realized I don’t always know better, but sometimes I do.

See also:

• People sometimes conflate programming with being smart
• The grug brained developer shares lessons from real world experience but we’re destined to repeat it due to the Dunning-Kruger effect
• Chesterton’s fence shows us that we can’t always know better