It's Not Imposter Syndrome If It's True

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It's Not Imposter Syndrome If It's True

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The brain hits with the devastating mathematical truth bomb: what if your "10x engineers" aren't actually exceptional, but just regular (1x) developers... and you're just a pathetic 0.1x coder? That late-night realization when you're comparing your 500-line solution to someone's elegant 5-line fix. Suddenly all those Stack Overflow answers that seemed like wizardry make you question if you've been fooling yourself about your coding abilities this whole time. The coefficient of your programming self-worth just asymptotically approached zero.

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