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Six months in and you thought you'd be building the next Netflix by now. Instead, you're still Googling "how to center a div" and wondering why your API returns undefined.
Backend development is basically an iceberg where the tip is "hello world" and the rest is databases, authentication, caching, microservices, message queues, load balancing, and existential dread about whether you should've just become a frontend dev.
The real maturity isn't learning to code—it's accepting that those "full-stack developer in 3 months" bootcamp ads were lying to you. Backend alone could take years to truly master, and that's before you even touch DevOps, security, or the seventeen different ways to structure your project folders.
