Hi everyone, Im currently working at a relatively large software company as a backend dev (since 10 months). Before, I was a relatively simple Wordpress-developer, and since 10 months I’m working on enterprise software. I’m scaled in as a medior, and my contract has recently been extended. I work mostly remote (1 or 2 days per weet at the office) which helps a lot since I’m a dad of 2 young children. Anyhow: my colleagues and manager seem pleased with me in the team. I work through the tickets and finish them in time. But here comes the kicker: I use a lot of AI to explain tickets, generate a plan, explain codebases, tooling, and of course: to generate code. I always try to make sense of the code it generates and let the ai explain the design decisions so I actually understand (mostly) what is happening. But I have to be honest: often, life takes over and with the chaos of young kids at home and work projects moving quickly nowadays, I feel overwhelmed and just let ai generate a plan, generate the code, let another agent review the code. Hereafter I scroll through the code quickly till I open a PR. Lately I’ve sometimes even been skipping that part, so I’m not even looking at the code at all. And even when I do, I often don’t understand all of it and most definitely wouldn’t be able to produce it on my own. All of this gives me an extreme sense of imposter syndrome and anxiety. I’m a sensitive person, and have been battling with this for the past 10 months daily. When I see my colleagues: they all seem to know it all, handle difficult tasks etc. But me, I’m so reliant on AI it seems, that I feel like I don’t belong. I’m always afraid to ask questions, or to speak up because I’m afraid I might get exposed as a fraud… Someone who doesn’t really know what he’s doing… I’m fighting this fight in my head, and it seems my imposter syndrome is just getting to me. I need this job for my family, and actually enjoy learning these new things. But my heavy use of AI make me feel that I’m gonna be exposed soon as a fraud. It just has been a lot the past 10 months, coming from a different background to now working at a software company with A LOT of new concepts. Thanks to AI I managed to keep up… but… it seems it wasn’t really my doing… Sorry for the long rant… I’m just wondering if someone else has experienced something similar? What should I be doing? Keep on going? What worked for you? Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/Noncookiecutterfreak
Originally posted by u/Noncookiecutterfreak on r/ClaudeCode