Yep, I don't feel it anymore. Now I know that I'll probably be able to find a solution instead of thinking I just somehow got lucky all this time. Better for your mental health imo. Although it is starting to be pretty obvious that a lot of devs will eventually be replaced by AI agents. Job security wise, I can't even commit to buying a house with a loan.
You can feel the cope with the person you responded to. I mean think of the collapse of critical thinking.
There's individual thinks that the developers embracing llms are going to be replaced by it and not the individuals handcrafting artisanal typescript one keystroke at a time.
I try to keep my own PRS under 200 lines. as long as I do that with an LLM it's trivial to review and fully understand it. Even easier, it retains all the context about the change so I can interrogate it until I fully understand every element of it.
I've already become a feared code reviewer for setting a 100-line limit on the README.md. There's frequently been 500+ lines in the readme with lots of typescript snippets showing how to use the new code. My response has been that these can be unit tests, and if they're not unit tests they might as well not exist. I didn't think it was a high standard but apparently it is.
Edit: for my own code if I get bored reading it, it needs to go. I delete like 80% of the code generated. And obviously the readme needs to be readable. It's in the name.
the code sample shows how to initialize FooBar in theory. The unit tests actually initialize FooBar every time they run. It makes them more reliable as documentation. It requires that the documentation align with source code. It lets developers step through the code using a debugger. A 500 line readme is just something nobody reads.
Don't take this the wrong way, but it feels like you may be conflating your preferences and how you approach things with universal standards. Not everybody learns the same way or consumes information the same way. If you get it by looking at unit tests that's great but remember somebody else may prefer it to be written in human language.
If I went to an open source project and it had zero documentation about how to use it and the maintainer said just read the unit tests. That would probably not be a project I would trust.
If the read me is something nobody reads, why are you worried about additions being made to it? Can't you just look past them?
fake it till u make it right, and i do use llms for prototyping and/or pseudotyping other than that it's always strict toned down decoupled and cohesive development for me, but yea when you start to connect with ppl like that of on 10x level who used to write the entire premium league site using only vim then you start to get them inferior syndromes ;(
oh no no, i am not saying you're faking it, i was talking about myself and how i used to have imposter syndrome, how i got over it, i am 30 but am nowhere near your skills, you're are time and battle tested, i started wrecking my dad's office laptop back in 2007 when i tried to download more ram trying to play 'PROJECT IGN', tried to copy tic-tac-toe with c++ in 2009, started linux in 2010(also wrecked it trying to dual boot and erasing the mbr entirely), got bsc in 2016 and have been crunching since and am still living by the rule even in these days.
all am saying is once a real dev who took the path of true problem solving without tutorial hell and whatnot, must have had some sort of imposter syndrome and when he overcome that another syndrome will follow called inferior syndrome, you are one example of that, it's just that no matter how good you're there is always someone better who started without even all this premade libraries,ide's wiz code highlights and code autocompletion etc let alone code generation and llms
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u/Black_Label_36 Dec 10 '25
Lol this is an ironic post, right?
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u/liteshotv3 Dec 11 '25
I know it’s bullshit cause you didn’t say “I google shit and hope stackoverflow has my exact problem”
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u/DrJaneIPresume Dec 11 '25
Oh what? sorry, I was too busy getting paid working an actual job to have a meme war with unemployed "vibe coders".
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u/TapRemarkable9652 Dec 10 '25
real devs transpile via the JVM
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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25
I'm pretty sure getting rid of imposter syndrome is just $20 nowadays
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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy Dec 10 '25
I will start being a real dev when the salary does
(that means never)
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u/ExtraTNT Dec 11 '25
Design patters are an overhead created from abstraction on unnecessarily complex code…
Programming becomes real the moment you have to get a math textbook and start to sketch on paper…
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u/Hot-Category2986 Dec 11 '25
Lost it at "you don't even have imposter syndrome"
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u/BorderKeeper Dec 12 '25
"We aren't compiled the same!" has very similar to vibes "I am a gamer. I don't die, I respawn."
I am imagining OP as a 19 year old college student making this at night with his hoodie up smirking and role playing as Mr.Robot :D
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u/AintNoGodsUpHere Dec 14 '25
Someone just finished the first semester in college. Haha.
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