The 3 Rites of Passage Every Developer Goes Through (And Nobody Warned Me About)
About this episode
Brian Jenney discusses the three uncomfortable milestones every developer faces in their career.
I wrote a triple nested for loop that took down a grocery chain's ordering system. I broke buttons across multiple sites as a senior engineering manager at Clorox. And I've sat in rooms feeling like the dumbest engineer there — more than once. In this episode, I break down the three uncomfortable milestones every developer hits: wanting to stop being "the junior guy," shipping code that breaks production in spectacular fashion, and being the weakest engineer in the room. No fluff, no motivational poster garbage — just honest stories from 12+ years in the industry. AI won't save you from any of these. You just have to go through them. If you're in one of those moments right now, this one's for you. Want to level up? 👇 Coding bootcamp for career switchers Learned Javascript the right way Break into AI engineering
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