Doubt is always present in engineering roles, but has an outsized influence in more senior roles. Doubt lingers.
How you handle it can define how good of a co-worker you are.
I wrote a little more on doubt here: amyunger.com/blog/2021/12/0…
"A few tech startup CEOs in my country (non-US) had started saying Elon's methods are fine, site is not going down, what is the problem etc. They were saying with a tight job market, this is how more companies will finally operate and were thinking of following."
Good luck.
When you have no idea the scope changes needed to implement a change:
git checkout -b cdwort/does-some-work
Will it be a two line change? Perhaps! Will it be a complete overhaul of some central and complex code? Maybe!
Oh, wonderful: I see the bot armies are back on this site in full force. I had forgotten how much better things had gotten here for those of us with small presences.