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Discussion on: Am I a good developer?

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Lars Rye Jeppesen • Edited

Don't worry, .. most of us feel this way I think.. in part because we are exposed to super smart people due to Open Source and the Internet. You get the feeling everybody are geniuses and that you don't know shit.

But trust me, you see the tip of the iceberg online.. most people would never dream of publishing anything.

The fact that you even wrote this article proves you are way beyond the average /s

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Jefferson Matheus

Your perspective is very interesting. We forget that not every developer has a GitHub account, give lectures or write articles, for example. I just wrote this article because I thought "I can't be the only developer feeling like this". But I couldn't imagine to reply any comments so soon. It's awesome.

And also it's good to know that even some of the "top of the iceberg" already felt like a fraud at least one time during their careers like I read in the other comment here.

By reading the comments I'm feeling I'm going on the right path by not giving up and trying to cope with those bad feelings :)