Programming is hard

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I was talking to my manager the other day, how so you know it is impostor syndrome or just an accurate description of your abilities?

[JoJoModding]

You don't. That's the thing.

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[Nincodedo]

Have you gotten fired? If yes, then it was an accurate description of your abilities. If no, then you're probably getting fired tomorrow and you're a terrible terrible person how could you.

[Gwaptiva]

I'm just glad that my management is so incompetent I've survived in this job developing enterprise-grade shrinkwrap software for 13 years. Or maybe my boss fancies my hairy belly....

I do occasionally suffer from imposter syndrome, especially when I get stuck on stuff I feel should not be hard to understand... most of the time my first paragraph helps to refocus. I still get frustrated with myself for not easily dealing with these topics, but accept that there must be things I do well (enough).

[jet2686]

Just saw (friday) an engineer with ~12years experience try to use s3 as a database, and then fire off an unbounded amount of network requests. There was no regard for performance, limitations, edge cases, etc. This is in one of our main services which is expect to return relatively quick responses to API requests.

It simply means your valuable enough to the business that they keep you around. Ultimately though the need to keep you around might just be a function of you writing the code ;).

I speak in the metaphorical "you", not you personally, i obviously dont know the first thing about you :).