[DamonHD]

You may be overthinking / part imagining it: self-calibration is hard.

And in any case experience is as useful as raw ability in getting things done.

I'm now ancient (late 50s) and recently had to step away from my start-up as CTO since we sold the IPR, but instead I am doing a part-time PhD (just had my first paper published) and may become a fractional CTO for a friend's business. For the last I won't be racing the tech staff on coding speed or code performance, but I think that decades of delivering such stuff can help them do it and get credit for it.

[mozman]

There’s nothing wrong with “i’ll get back to you”, provided you do quickly and comprehensively.