Superior Imposter Syndrome

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Superior Imposter Syndrome

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The eternal programmer's dilemma: take the left path and feel like a fraud despite your skills, or take the right path and become an insufferable know-it-all who corrects people's syntax in casual conversation. Either way, you'll still spend hours debugging a missing semicolon. The real trick? Oscillating between both states within the same code review, simultaneously believing you're both the smartest and dumbest person in the room. It's like quantum computing for your ego.

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