--- title: I'm a programmer and I'm stupid | daily.dev description: A programmer shares their experience of feeling limited in their mental capacity and discusses their approach to programming with simple languages and minimal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I'm a programmer and I'm stupid | daily.dev og:description: A programmer shares their experience of feeling limited in their mental capacity and discusses their approach to programming with simple languages and minimal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kEunwjPK0.png og:image:alt: I'm a programmer and I'm stupid og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I'm a programmer and I'm stupid **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 2 min read · 1170 upvotes · 111 comments ## Summary A programmer shares their experience of feeling limited in their mental capacity and discusses their approach to programming with simple languages and minimal dependencies. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@nevenbridge** · 65 upvotes > Keeping things simple is the most important best practice, not at all a sign of stupidity. People who make things overly complicated just to show others how big their penis is not only have an inferiority complex but are also the real idiots. Great provocation :) **@mousehunterdev** · 42 upvotes > Well most programmers are stupid or on drugs and alcohol based on the codebase I had to put together **@nonwiz** · 31 upvotes > I can somehow related to this though I don't have that much experience. **@thadanzar** · 12 upvotes > I think this person may be my mental twin :D **@luismatos** · 11 upvotes > I feel like I wrote this... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#golang](https://daily.dev/tags/golang), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I'm a programmer and I'm stupid","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0"},"datePublished":"2024-03-07T09:33:34.174Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:44:17.610Z","description":"A programmer shares their experience of feeling limited in their mental capacity and discusses their approach to programming with simple languages and minimal...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0003eeb9cd2cf1f8354ca0aad19fe545?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0003eeb9cd2cf1f8354ca0aad19fe545?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":111,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1170},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":111}],"keywords":"general-programming,golang,python","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"I'm a programmer and I'm stupid"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-m-a-programmer-and-i-m-stupid-keunwjpk0","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Keeping things simple is the most important best practice, not at all a sign of stupidity. 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