The Programmer's Eternal Dilemma

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The Programmer's Eternal Dilemma

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The eternal fork in the developer road: feeling like a complete fraud who somehow tricked everyone into hiring you, or believing you're the next tech messiah who's just too brilliant for your current company to appreciate. There is no middle path. No balanced self-perception. Just oscillating wildly between "I'm the worst coder alive" and "Why aren't they making me CTO yet?" while Git silently judges your commit messages.

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