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I've not encountered a "code culture" that "measures how much you self-perceive to know about code." I've encountered management cultures like that, but if you have a bunch of developers working together, people deeply know the wizards from the blowhards.

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If you have a bunch of developers, yes. But the entry level filter is people who aren't yet developers, and people talking about code. I've found actual developers pretty welcoming, but I also had to skip the entire beginning of the pipeline to get to them.

I have encountered groups of developers that have gone both ways - some actually paid attention to the people who knew things, and others paid attention to the people who claimed to know things. For example, I like to think I can tell wizards from blowhards, but I am also pretty sure I can be fooled in the short term.

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