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My 10+ years professional life in software has seen me both thinking I am Julius and thinking I am working with Julii.

What I try to tell myself is that I am working in a state where I am at best ~75% sure of what I am doing. I assume others are in a similar situation with a varying percentage value.

Mistakes happen more often than I would like (not quite of the IP-less internet caliber, but still) and both when I make mistakes, and other make mistakes, I try to remind myself of this.

I value highly anyone that takes the time to tell me I made a mistake and why, I try to offer the same courtesy when I get the chance.

I only am worried when people _repeatedly_ make no attempt to learn from mistakes and just shrug them off, or worse leave the hot potato to someone else and still get the credit. But I can also see how sometimes we make mistakes and don't even realize.

...more on the topic, I guess, I have stopped using AI tools while coding almost completely



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