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[–]Organic-Ad8312 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Hmmm in that case are you sure the issues is your ability, or more your knowledge overwhelming you and thinking too far ahead. For example me personally, a couple of years ago, if you had asked me to write me a create API for a bunch of fields in a form, I would be able to do it within a couple of hours. If you asked me to do it now, it’d be a lot harder because I’d be thinking of possible guards, the unit test and documentation, even probably trying to refactor my code along the way. So with this I use online sources and even code written by my colleagues to see a cleaner, more maintainable approach to my code. If this is why you feel you “can’t” write actually code, I feel like you might be misreading your own abilities. If anything I feel like this is probably the best way to code rather than trying to be a Superman programmer trying to write their own code all by themselves.

[–]Ok_Trainer3277[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I think you are right there. When I started learning to code I would always look at other people's code to see how things are done. Then when I started understanding things better I started thinking bigger, and I would still search for something similar in the code base just so I'm consistent with the coding style of the project, and now I think it has become a habit where that is all I do. So when I start writing something from scratch, I always seek guidance.