You just got out of Uni, no one will be coming to save you!

heltonrolobcv — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:23:09 +0000

If you just got out of uni as a dev, let me tell you: no one is coming to save you.

That’s what I’ve been realizing since I started working at a company a few weeks ago.

In university, most projects are closed-ended. Some may be open, but usually effort matters more than the final outcome.

Not in the real world. As a junior, your superiors should be more flexible, of course. But remember, they most likely have bosses too, and the pressure on them to deliver is intense.

This means your job as a junior is not to slack off and just “do your tasks.”

I felt this firsthand last week. Before that, I was assigned to a slow-moving, more relaxed project. It was great for onboarding. However, all it took was being assigned a task on a messy SQL database for my lack of database fundamentals to show.

Because of those gaps in fundamentals, I found myself relying too much on AI, almost blindly trusting it, since the project PoC had to be completed end-to-end in one week.

That was the perfect recipe to produce fast but low-quality work, probably giving my boss more work in the end.

It was a learning experience, and I take 100% responsibility for it.

That’s why I decided to share this experience with you, and hopefully some of you relate to it.

So the lesson for me was clear: no one is coming to save me.

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You just got out of Uni, no one will be coming to save you!