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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.

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"...

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...

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...