Working in public exposes your mistakes to maintainers, employers, and contributors—but that visibility isn't a liability. Most mistakes are intermediate states in a learning process, not evidence of incompetence. Code review is collaborative reasoning, not a verdict. Codebases record how understanding evolved, not who was good
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