AI: From Imposter Syndrom to Dunning-Kruger Effect

original post When I started writing code as a professional programmer, I believed that everyone else was writing better code than me, that they were better programmers, and that they were smarter. Maybe that was true to some degree, there will always be someone better than you, but the reality was that I was experiencing Imposter Syndrome. Imposter Syndrome is persistent self-doubt, the fear of being exposed as a fraud, and the inability to internalize success. It often drives high achievers toward burnout, and it is a condition that many people in the tech industry suffer from. Before Google, programmers could get stuck on a problem for a long time. They had to search through books, collaborate with others, and think outside the box to find solutions. This process could break a programmer, but at the same time, it built a strong foundation of knowledge and experience. When Google and the Internet arrived, the core process remained mostly the same. The difference was speed and accessi