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The thing that unstuck me as a junior dev wasn't another tutorial — it was a senior willing to review my actual code and tell me what they'd do differently.

Tutorials teach you the "happy path." A real reviewer catches the stuff that bites you in production: the unhandled edge case, the abstraction you reached for too early, the naming that'll confuse you in six months.

If you're a junior feeling stuck despite "knowing" the syntax, my honest advice: stop collecting courses and start getting your work read by someone two steps ahead of you. Even one solid review a week beats ten tutorials.

And if you're senior — pairing with a junior is one of the fastest ways to sharpen your own fundamentals. You're forced to articulate *why* you do things, and half the time you realize you've been on autopilot.

Curious how others here found their first real mentor. Cold DMs? Open source? Just got lucky at a job? 👀

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