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Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️
@jacobherrington.dev

Bsky intro time: I’m a mostly-self-taught dev. For years, I worked as a senior engineer in the startup world. Now, I’m building my own startup applying LLMs to a “boring” space broken by compliance and organizational knowledge loss. I love food, shitposting, and tattoos.

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Benjie Kibblewhite
@benjie.ca

Hey! Also a self-taught dev. That debilitating imposter syndrome thing is so real. A thing that's always caught me, is I talk to devs I look up to that have traditional engineering/comp sci backgrounds about it. They'll often say something like "Oh no don't worry everyone has that"...

Benjie Kibblewhite
@benjie.ca

Which was not actually very comforting. I'd think, "sure, you have imposter syndrome, but I'm REALLY an imposter." The thing that always caught me was that I was terrified that I didn't know what I didn't know. Sure the things I build work and I was getting praise, but I wondered...

Benjie Kibblewhite
@benjie.ca

when is the shoe going to drop, and I'm going to be caught flat footed, with everyone mad at me for something I didn't know I should know? I think there is definitely a unique flavour to the self-taught imposter syndrome. Interestingly, I just went through a high-stakes interview process...