That’s a rather disrespectful thing to say. But I’ll play and assume you weren’t trying to be a jerk.

Sounds like you’re just still in the same boat as op.

I disagree. It’s a natural part of the cycle of learning new things, and when is software development not about learning new things?

Chill, hatred is too strong for this. Jokes are rooted in reality but that doesn’t mean that they describe the full reality.

I’ve been programming and tinkering with computing systems for a long time. Every time I start a new project with some new tech, I end up with 1000 tabs open in various mixtures of docs, AI, stackoverflow, reddit; and discord, slack; etc. hunting for answers or resolutions to similar situation to some particular nuanced problem I’m experiencing. It doesn’t mean that I’m an idiot just that I’m trying to do something that I haven’t done before.

It’s taken me many cycles to break myself out of the samsara loops of “I don’t know how to do this so I suck.” Imposter Syndrome is real but eventually we work through it to a healthy perspective of “I don’t know how to do this… yet, but I’m going to have to struggle through it to earn this knowledge.”

actually create code that works as intended intentionally, and not through trial and error / stack overflow.

When do we tell them?