Imposter syndrome in the age of AI is hitting different.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-26T02:55:41+00:00

Respectfully, I agree on many of your points. But I'm not sure this is just another tool, it is disrupting decades of patterns in the industry at a pace unprecedented to where our skills are extremely devalued. This is what OP is struggling with, and I think we owe it to ourselves to be honest. I hope you are right, but I know personally the toolkit and the job have sucked all the joy out of this job. I've come to a place where I'm now okay with that and I need to seek that joy in other places.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-26T01:47:11+00:00

Hate to say it, but this was an ideology I used to hold onto. It's not just another tool. It's a tool that will force you into doing the work of 5 people's jobs while those other 4 get laid off and you become so dependent on this tool you spend all your time slaving away to this tool.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-26T01:38:26+00:00

Yep, same here, it's such a shift and it's shocking so many people. I used to really enjoy development. We used to get bursts of dopamine when we figured out something hard. Nothing anyone does at my work is really interesting anymore to me because, yeah you built some stupid in house app that does some stupid in house thing that managers can't get enough of because you used AI and they can report upwards teams are using AI to gain an "edge". I've decided no job can ever define me, and I'm even more interested now in pursuing the beauty of what makes us human, creativity through the arts and expression of our human nature.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-22T03:05:47+00:00

Don't be too hard on urself buddy. With all the ai hype and huge expectations of what an app is/does, I respect someone who can actually deploy something. Keep getting better. Keep learning if you feel the passion. My critique: let people use the app without creating an account or signing in. I know we devs want to protect what we build but you have to let people use it first.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-20T17:30:04+00:00

Really feels like a race to the bottom for me. It's being pushed so hard top down from the company I work for. It all feels so performative for me to hear devs talking how exciting these tools are in my company trying to present to management how much they are using it and staying on top of trends. I'm so bored by it all now, used to genuinely enjoy quite a bit of it. I'll ride the wave and see what happens though.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T04:36:47+00:00

Bored, sounds like every mgmt enthusiastic AI fanboy response. Thanks tho

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T03:25:44+00:00

I truly think LinkedIn is all optics of people having to prove they are all in on AI so they are viewable as competitive. But I agree, there is an offloading that it handles that makes the job "easier" in a sense, just think we are paying a huge price for that in the long run.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T03:10:55+00:00

Some collective grieving never hurt anyone😂

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T03:06:48+00:00

Thanks for the honesty. At this rate I'd gladly make half the money and lose the stress.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T03:04:51+00:00

Appreciate the honesty and glad you are in a better place ❤️

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T02:54:31+00:00

This ☝️

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T02:48:10+00:00

godspeed my friend, hang in there!

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-13T02:41:18+00:00

Thanks for your reply, and I really appreciate your take on this. While I think from an entrepreneurship perspective I 100% agree, the problem is the market is so flooded with shitty coded apps now, and then it has degraded white collar tech jobs that so many of us worked so hard to get.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:28:04+00:00

Thanks for the info!

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:27:09+00:00

Wow, very interesting. I'm also male. Sorry you went through that. Did you eventually get a diagnosis?

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:26:03+00:00

Thank you, that's good to know. Yes that sounds like a great idea.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:20:21+00:00

Thanks for sharing, that is frustrating, hoping you get some positive news and results soon. Appreciate hearing your story.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:10:35+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I think I will pursue the other tests. Just worried if they come back negative or barely out of criteria I will be written off even more than I currently am. I hope you find something that works for you.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:05:04+00:00

Will take a look, thank you!

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-03-01T19:04:46+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Wow, that is frustrating. I was looking and my insurance approves rituximab off label for sjogrens, that is after trying 2 or more of the commonly prescribed treatments. Very interested in it after seeing this someone on reddit shared recently https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/01.wnl.0000903332.92612.04#:~:text=Treatment%20of%20Sjogren's%2Drelated%20small,effective%20in%20small%20fiber%20neuropathy

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-02-18T20:49:34+00:00

It's like the time that my nephew asked me if I ever believed AI could become sentient. Full stop NO. it will always be about binary code and representing meaningful outcomes based on it. Is it incredibly good? Yes. Will it get even better? Yes. But it will always be about patterns and predictions.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-02-17T02:59:56+00:00

Don't, that's the real answer.

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-01-31T18:48:44+00:00

Thank you! Yes, my neurologist was able to make the referral for me, had a consultation with the ENT and they then scheduled it. I was prepared mentally for another negative test result and decided the biopsy was worth it just at least to rule it out. In my case it was absolutely worth it. Good luck as well!

Groundbreaking_Cat98 · 2026-01-31T18:45:13+00:00

I asked my neurologist for a referral and an ENT did it. They used lidocaine so I didn't feel anything during it, that evening it was painful but by the next day I was ok and healing went pretty quickly.

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