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by kypro 1455 days ago
Well in my first couple of weeks as a professional dev I managed to wipe the production DB with a dodgy SQL query so you're probably doing better than me (=

I think most people here can relate to this though. There are still times I'm working on something and think, "oh god, I'm in over my head here". And I'm a senior dev so I'm paid to know what I'm doing.

I agree with what another commenter here said about being transparent with your team. As a junior dev no one is (or should be) expecting you to know everything. Even senior devs can't be expected to know absolutely everything. I still ask my colleagues to help me out with things almost every day and similarly they ask me questions too.

You're expecting way too much of yourself and stressing yourself out. It's okay to not know everything.

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I think we've all done something like that.

I try to insist on my production account being readonly and having a separate user for deploys.