Coding confidence Memes

When your inner monologue goes from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "Wait, what if I actually don't know what I'm doing?" That's not imposter syndrome anymore—that's your brain executing a recursive self-doubt function with no base case! It's like when you've been faking your way through a codebase for so long that you start wondering if Stack Overflow should charge you rent. The shower thoughts hit different when you realize you've been copying and pasting for three years and still can't explain how that one function works.

The graph perfectly captures the infamous "Dunning-Kruger effect" in tech mentorship. That poor intern is stuck at the peak of "Mount Stupid" - where knowing just enough HTML and a for-loop has them convinced they're ready to rewrite the company codebase in Rust. Meanwhile, their actual skills are hovering somewhere between "can center a div" and "accidentally deleted production database." The real tragedy? We've all been that intern, strutting around with confidence inversely proportional to our knowledge, until reality hits like a merge conflict in a monorepo. The graph doesn't show the inevitable next phase: crying in the server room while questioning every career choice.