Honestly it's a whole thing now. People just love giving advice on stuff they know nothing about. Like my uncle who tried to explain crypto to me after watching one YouTube short, or random folks online diagnosing car trouble from a three-word description. Confidence is way easier to fake than actual knowledge.

Three years is a long time to get it wrong, that's wild. What were the other signals like on your old crew, did they all just adapt to your version? Makes you wonder how many other little things were off but nobody said anything.

Okay but it's just 100 lines of code. That's basically a warm-up exercise, not some huge milestone. People act like every tiny step in coding is this life changing event. It's a tutorial project, you followed the steps. Of course it worked. The real test is building something from your own messy ideas. That's when you actually learn anything.