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I like this article. I think im somewhere between the "competente" and "proficient" level learning and working with C++ and CUDA/C. As long as you dont consider yourself "an expert", you`re good. Experts are rly rare and otherwise you are most likely an expert-beginner stuck in the dead-end of the fork.

Two things i may add:

1.) I think the only way out (beside getting help from others) of the expert-beginner dead-end is through gaining more knowledge, instead of gaining more experience.

2.) In applications, theres a massive, i call it "invasion" of "experts", just because everyone is claiming to be an "expert", not to be sorted out by HR. HR is most likely not a domain specialist in programming stuff. Now, given you state in your CV, you are "proficient", but an "expert-beginner" states "hes an expert", your kicked out of the interview stage. What a mess!