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by yawnxyz 1318 days ago
I'm by no means a prodigy, I'm in my mid-30's, and mostly a UX designer who write a bunch of code. Yet I build a bunch of stuff for a clinical trial team for a hospital system; I build systems that gather data that inform clinical outcomes.

I'm not some elite prodigy, but it doesn't matter... programming is just a tool. Yes, I won't win any competitions, and I've never done leetcode, but that's a SMALL sliver of all the industries that need people to write solid code. In the end it's the outcomes and products that matter, who cares what code you write?