[drakaal]

Mensa is one place. But there are others. Cerebrals Society, Intertel, Prometheus Society, The Triple Nines.

My role at Microsoft was as Subject Matter Expert. SME's don't write "much code" but we tend to prove problems are addressable in code and build proof of concept code.

My current role as CTO I work in python which is not a language I have been doing for very long. I struggle with Lambda's and List Comprehension, often opting to use slower constructs that a less experienced developer would use. But the logic is solid.

I also often am completely with out error handling, and just say. "Well duh, if you try and stuff HTML in my text field it breaks." or "Why did you use curly quotes I'm not handling your Unicode".

Part of that is "not knowing" because I don't do it 40 hours a week, and part of it is that it is cheaper to have other fix my code than it is to tie me up adding all the error handling and input validation.