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by smilesnd 2764 days ago
Programming is a craft once you reach a certain level their is no checklist or metric that can be used to measure you ability. Only experience and battle scars tell how good you might be when solving the next problem.

Only ever measure yourself against yourself. As long as you make sure you are a better programmer today then yesterday then you have nothing to worry about.
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l0b0 2764 days ago
This. After 15 years as a professional developer I have a fairly good idea where my boundaries are, and that's about it.

Expect to learn new things every day, and from every conceivable source: your fellow developers, junior and senior, of course, but also your PM (for example, prioritization, techniques to organize work), designers (information flow, HCI), business analysts (how the client ticks), etc.. Very likely everyone you ever worked with could teach you something, and you'll never have time to learn it all.

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jakegarelick 2764 days ago
100% agreed. At the risk of sounding dismissive (not my intention) it doesn’t matter whether you’re a “good” programmer or not.

Stop trying to measure yourself or others, get in there and code.

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