Let's suppose I have been very stupid. How do I fix it?

What does it look like in the path afterward?

Is there even a path, at all?

I've been told software engineers are full of themselves (even Perplexity confirms there is a reputation of being "pretentious and arrogant"...) So I think this is very related. Don't we have the responsibility of "fixing" our community from this defect? How can we heal ourselves?

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-it-true-software-engineers-ahvBDBHeQUmIkSdDCzIz_g#1

Have a laugh... They say that even in HN's inner circle, it gets more and more pretentious than ordinary engineers... the more we reach the epicenter... Which might just be me? I'll take the blame...