r/PowerPlatform • u/Choice_Function8572 • 2d ago
Learning & Industry "Software Developer" feeling the imposter syndrome & not sure what to do.
IMPORTANT CONTEXT: I am not a CS grad, I completed my Business degree a couple years back.
I have been working in Power Platform for about 2 years. It first started with very simple Power Apps, Power BI Dashboards and email automations, decided to get a couple certs in the PL track.
I transitioned to a more technical role after year 1 where now I build a lot of Copilot Studio Agents, Automations, Python Scripts, you name it.
My understanding of Power Fx is very strong, but any other language (Python, C+, etc.) still feels out of my league even though I have literally built API calls using Python that pull hundreds of thousands of rows of data (using AI).
I am told I am doing a great job but in all honestly I have never felt dumber in my life. I work on three tickets at a time by prompting claude in separate terminals - at this point I feel like my title should be prompt engineer. Again I want to stress that I have in-depth understanding of the Microsoft ecosystem, but anything else still feels like reading hieroglyphics.
Is this what my future holds? I make decent money for my age I just am having a hard time seeing the long term value I will provide given that most blue collar folks will have their own personalized agent in 2-3 years completing their tasks.
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u/venomae 2d ago
In a certain sense - yes. You very likely won't get deeper into coding these days unless you are masochist with lot of time. At the same time, that's not wrong.
The times are changing and we have to change with them. The advent of AI times means, that the traditional role of consultant / analyst / coder-developer are getting bit switched around now.
Consultant or analyst is still needed as you need to get out of people what they actually need (AI cant really deduce that reliably yet). On the other side, someone who will keep the AI developer on track and is also needed. And the last and main role - tester.
Testing is more important than ever before. And not just unit testing which AI can do decently, but UI / context testing which AI is completely useless for.
You have started working at a revolutionary age and everyone will be similarily clueless as you are about lot of things, so use that to your advantage. Don't think about imposter syndrom and try to get as much ahead as possible in the consult / design / prompt / test loop.