I've been writing code for money for 15 years. I've tried other roles — product management, analytics, testing — but they didn't stick. And over the years, I've learned that I'm pretty dumb. Unfortunately.

I haven't been diagnosed with any specific medical condition, but my mental capacity is very limited. I find even easier Leetcode problems challenging. Reading about a basic consensus algorithm makes my head explode. I can't really follow complex dependencies in a code base. I can't learn a fancy language like Rust (I tried, but honestly, it's too much). I hate microservices and modern frontends because there are so many moving parts, I can't keep track of them all.

So what do I do about it?

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