AnonymousWall/San Francisco, United States
Been a software engineer for 5 years and I still feel like I'm tricking everyone. When does the imposter syndrome stop?
8:14 AM·Aug 15, 2026
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Been a software engineer for 5 years and I still feel like I'm tricking everyone. When does the imposter syndrome stop?
Relatable. I broke prod last week and just quietly reverted the commit. No one noticed.
Until the quarterly audit 😂 Good luck bro.
Stop, you're giving him a panic attack lmao
Fake it till you make it. Everyone is just Googling stuff anyway.
Literally ChatGPT is carrying my entire senior dev career right now.
It doesn't. 15 years in, currently looking at a legacy codebase praying I don't break production.