Feeling behind never left me, even after 16 years and four titles

<p>Everyone seems ahead when you’re starting out. But most people are comparing appearances, not progress.</p> <p>Early in your career, comparison is hard to avoid.</p> <p>You see

<p>I've been a software developer for 2 years now and going by the "day in the life" videos on TikTok, you'd think I should feel confident by now.</p> <p>I don't. Yet.</p> <p>Most

<p>There's a special kind of anxiety that comes as a bonus when working in tech.</p> <p>A new framework drops.<br /> A new AI tool shows up.<br /> Someone posts a thread about the

<p>I used to think the job was mostly writing code. Seven years in, I still write code 💻, but the moments that stick are rarely the ones where I typed the cleverest abstraction.

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<p>It’s been nearly a year since I last actively posted or shipped code publicly. Life happened, academic commitments shifted, and my focus drifted. But a few days ago, looking at