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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

When I have AI write me a custom ESLint rule in a few minutes, which would have taken hours of documentation surfing and tutorials otherwise, that's a genuine order of magnitude time and effort improvement. I think a lot of the more genuine 10x AI hype is coming from people who are simply in the honeymoon phase or haven't sat down to actually consider what 10x improvement means mathematically. Even after I got over the idea that there was a secret clade of engineer who was now ten times as productive and strong and tall and sexy as I was, I still felt some anxiety over the fact that I still didn't enjoy using AI very much.

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