u/BlackMageIsBestMage

I have been admitted into a job that has tasks that feel a lot harder than anything the introduction interviews for the job ever had going on, and my independent learning along with college learning leaves me thinking I am not actually up to a coding level I should be.
I am having to dig through a fairly large repository and add to it under very specific criteria such as explicitly never using LINQ commands and other specific rules. This is a project brought into existence due to a previous team actually failing to properly provide a working product after a year of work, however we are still under the same contract so we are all working at double speed, essentially from scratch, to deliver a product who should be at least halfway or more through its life span already. I will have to remain vague on what exactly is being worked on unfortunately.

My program lead knows I am new, he understands that I will be learning a lot on the job but for how fast paced this job has turned out to be, and how explicitly they say I cannot go over 40 hours a week in time, I just find myself struggling. This is a part I am especially not happy about, and I have read the rules and will explicitly say I do not support AI and using it is absolutely going to make you a worse programmer and you will never learn anything if you use it.... but just to keep up and get deliverable content out I find myself having to rely on it at times and I just so deeply do not want to do that at all. I WANT to be the coder, not some slop machine. Being in this position has made me feel like a worse programmer and discouraged, honestly I feel like a sham. Im just not sure how to learn and thrive in such a fast paced environment as someone who is so new to the field and with little experience. They clearly saw something in me during the interview.
The TL;DR of this all is, does anyone have advice on learning in such a fast paced environment? I have ran through codecademy courses for C# and i can confidently do them, but like the moment I get into this database and start attempting tasks I just get so overwhelmed and confused. The current branch I am working on has almost 500 cs files all interconnected and I just dont feel like anything before me prepared me for content like this.

Hello, I have not played this game in well over 15 years, really only playing it at launch year.

I am deciding to replay it and I am more than likely massively over analyzing team comps for starter/partner pokemons. I think I am leaning on having vulpix in the team since her IQ group is great and access to imprison is great utility. However I noticed I can have a partner meowth (why cant i play as him? 😔). He was my favorite team to play as in pokemon red rescue team along with my partner psyduck, mostly because I LOVED pick up as an ability, and he was also a fury swipes monster.

Meowth, however, also is in that same IQ group as vulpix and I think there may be too much overlap there to make a more balanced team. I also threw around an eevee and vulpix team in my head, eventually getting glaceon for a cool ice and fire fox team theme....but thats gona be so end game that i dont even really think its worth considering. I am really at such a loss and overwhelmed by my options! I would like to hear what you guys who have been dedicated to the series might have to say