I am a shitty programmer

After many instances of thinking I was mediocre, it has come to my attention that I am genuinely a shitty programmer. when I wrote code that I was genuinely pleased with, only to see it thrown away, I thought that the person rewriting it was just showing off. I never found it suspicious that I was the only one fired when companies needed to "downsize", because I was a bit asocial and sometimes forgetful about implementing things to spec.

I was oblivious.

I have read SICP. I have a education in CS from a prestigious community college and a state university.

Is it possible that some people are just shitty, stupid programmers? Clearly I am one of these people. I think I'll call up Kodak-kun to see if he needs any help with the toilets.

you can always try to support your team in another ways. For example, setup a wiki and document all the stuff in the project.

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You will still do your shitty programmer job, but you will have a "talent" for documenting that is REALLY important (and most people hates to do) The thing is, if you like working in development, and you suck at designing algorithms, you can always be useful. Teams are always more effective with different kinds of people.

I say, keep programming (and your salary), but take responsability for the documentation (i think that wikis -a mediawiki appliance like the one here http://www.turnkeylinux.org/download?file=turnkey-mediawiki-12.0-squeeze-x86.iso -are the best for that), and tell your boss you want to focus on that. Not everyone can be on the front lines.