Imposter Syndrome Didn't Go Away. It Got Quieter.
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I noticed something last year. The imposter syndrome posts disappeared. Not gradually. They were everywhere — "I've been coding for three years and I still Google how to center a div," "just got promoted to senior and I have no idea what I'm doing," threads with thousands of likes, people in the replies saying me too, me too, me too. Then the LLMs arrived, and the posts stopped. I thought maybe the tools cured it. That we'd finally found the thing that made everyone feel competent. I was wrong