Been there. I’m a hobbyist coder and often been the only one in a team who could easily work a miracle by putting together a tool or database to solve a problem that otherwise could have required actually hiring an expert. These are teams that are essentially non-technical. I dread to think of how many terrible mistakes were made.

One thing that helped is that later I had a boss who happened to be an expert. Knowing he could understand what I was doing was a kick up the arse to learn the right ways of doing things.