But a skilled programmer knows how to assimilate a new code base. Clearly they aren’t going to claim to know the new code base before looking at it (so they aren’t going to claim to “know it all”)
Skilled programmer has the proficiency and courage to attack the problem and win. There's some boldness coming from knowledge and experience, and i like people showing that.
On the other hand an unskilled person will not be able to understand the design, will be afraid to make changes, will get confused and ignore the parts they cant understand, and will not take the responsibility and initiative - they need to be guided all the time. Then i dont care if they're humble or not, there's nothing to be gained.
Yeah incompetence is worse than bragging and humble bragging.
The issue mostly arises because Thinkers are prone to expressing confidence while accepting of criticism. But more people (feelers) are humble yet violently opposed to criticism.
But yeah, it’s good to not unnecessarily crush incompetent egos when it can be avoided... unfortunately some people are just too sensitive and even not encouraging them is seen as an attack on them.
