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Totally selected the wrong meme for the old title, but here we are.
I actually really like this. I suffer heavily from Imposter Syndrom, and one of the biggest realizations I had was that my new project manager manages to keep his job despite being absolutely horrible at it.
The one previous to him was worse.
Imposter Syndrome is just the flipside of Dunning-Kruger. You must not let it paralyse you but you should know that it is a good thing. You can't get better unless you believe there is room to get better. And there always is room to get better, so you've been on the right track from the getgo.
Allegedly the only way to get rid of imposter syndrome is to just... do your work/stuff until it goes away.
I've been at the same job for 9 years, but I don't feel any more capable than at the start. I still have no idea what I'm doing while being sure others are constantly judging me. Any day my manager will take me apart to put me on a PIP or outright fire me. I've "known" this for years, and I'm as convinced as ever that it will happen eventually, soon even.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it ever goes away..... I recently got invited to sit on the national licensing board for my field. I'm literally helping make the test to see if you're an imposter, and I still feel like an imposter.
Me too.
I would, but now there's free LLM's that can do what I do literally for free and 1000x faster.
Past that, I have no marketable skills that a modern LLM doesn't also have, and better. I very much doubt I'm alone in this. Between now and say, two to five years tops, my employers will know it too.
File LLMs under "confidently doing it wrong". They don't know anything, they just parrot what was scraped off the internet
Jokes on you, OP's job is parroting things that were scraped off the internet!
Funnily enough, that’s also what a large portion of people do too, just regurgitate stuff without comprehending its meaning.
Lots of people get phds while just being able to answer textbook questions, start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge and it’s just air. It’s literally what people call “book smart” vs “street smart”.
start questioning them to get them to apply that knowledge
That's literally what people do to get a PhD, they defend their thesis by answering a bunch of questions from professors about it. That's the point of a PhD.
It has nothing to do with "street smarts" unless the degree is from the "School of Hard Knocks".
Sorry maybe not phds specifically, but masters and bachelors maybe? Lots of certificates and qualifications require just written tests, no practical testing.
Not disagreeing, but what does that help the thousands who will still lose their jobs regardless?
Just wait it out ..... being confidently wrong only works for a limited time until people realize it isn't working at all .... and the point at which people, especially corporate leaders, realize it isn't working is the point when they start seeing that they aren't making money any more.
People who know whats good and wont settle for mediocrity are out there. Market to them!
It doesn't.
Unionize. Individually your power to change things is weak, together your power is strong. The only thing power listens to is a greater power and the reality is that your bosses likely rely on you more than you rely on them.
I guarantee you do have useful skills and that they are better than what an LLM can produce. Don't listen to the hype that will be used to justify taking your ability to live from you in exchange for higher profits.