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by carlmr 2568 days ago
If you think like #3 you're one of the engineers that should work on safety critical software. Recognizing that you may produce errors I think is akin to the Dunning-Kruger effect. It shows me you know enough that you don't know enough, which is far preferable to people who don't know they don't know and thus think they're good.
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The nightmare employee in this situation is the "rockstar".