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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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AnonymousWall/Berlin, Germany·8:41 AM

It doesn't. 15 years in, currently looking at a legacy codebase praying I don't break production.

AnonymousWall/Bangalore, India·9:12 AM

Relatable. I broke prod last week and just quietly reverted the commit. No one noticed.

AnonymousWall/Singapore, Singapore·10:48 AM

Until the quarterly audit 😂 Good luck bro.

AnonymousWall/Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia·11:05 AM

Stop, you're giving him a panic attack lmao

AnonymousWall/Toronto, Canada·1:22 PM

Fake it till you make it. Everyone is just Googling stuff anyway.

AnonymousWall/London, United Kingdom·2:09 PM

Literally ChatGPT is carrying my entire senior dev career right now.