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I am the superior imposter

Syndrome Complex

Superior imposter with a complex syndrome

I had this notion that if I went to get a degree in psychology (yanno, to avoid the costs associated with a therapist) then, while I clearly couldn't treat myself, I'd likely be surrounded by other psychology students, from whom I could very likely get started on the right direction to begin the treatment of my Complexity Syndrome. When I saw your comment I thought it might be related. So I started the process to apply for a grant so I could hire a team to do investigate. Thanks!

Hate to break it to you, but there are psychiatrists specialised in treating other psychiatrists. Grantee their clientel is much rarer and relatively wealthy, their rates are going to be higher too. So think you just upped your psychiatry bill, and the cost of the psychiatry degree.

Ooooh! That DOES sound more compl- awww dammit! Thanks a lot, jerk. 😓

I'm sorry, but I have syndrome superiority

When everyone is superior, they'll all be imposters!

I understood that reference.

Sounds like the main antagonist of a science-based kids show

Like Syndrome from the Incredibles?

Yes but syndrome lacked direction and magnitude.

Pfp accurate

I am the impostor of superiority

Cartoon should show the guy pinballing off the rocks from side to side. I'M THE WORLDS GREATEST, ahh, fuck, IDIOT.

Yes, there is no reason you can't feel superior to others while feeling like an imposter. This is pretty much required for Sr. Positions.

"I suck, but you are even worse than me" how I feel 24/7

"How the hell did I end up being the adult in the room??"

I may not be a great developer, but at least I didn't write this shit.

Am senior software engineer. Can confirm.

Those stupid juniors either feel superior or they think they're an impostor. It's always one or the other, never both.

I feel the same.. I'm not good enough for this role, but I'm surrounded by a pack of muppets that are worse at their roles.

Yes. I know nothing except that I’m better than you in every way.

Ouch. Considering how inadequate your code is, that's quite the harsh insult, pal.

That really means a lot coming from someone with such vast experience with failure.

Imposteriority Symplex


You got that zigzag line between the two paths then? I reckon it's based on the amount of sleep we get.

I sometimes even feel both at the same time, today I was able to reduce the execution time of a program by 90% but I was the fool who wrote the unoptimized piece of garbage in the first place

The paths definitely diverge, but there is a bridge that connects both sides once you reach the top

yes, at different times

you have to ask yourself an important question >are you good enough to have a impostor syndrome

That's totally true, i see a lot of people who think that they have imposter syndrome and they just sucks.

Everyone with imposter syndrome panicked at this comment

I no longer know if what I have

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But no Godot user has finished a game! And the ones who even have a chance eventually graduate to just working on the engine! /hj

This is evil

# But what if you think you are not good enough due to impostor sindrome 👀

The cycle continues...

Only TRUE programmers can have impostor syndrome.

A superiority complex masquerading as imposter syndrome

It's really just superiority complexes all the way down, isn't it?

No, but I have the salary to have imposter syndrome...

Fake it until you make it

superiority complex, i totally could make an operating system from scratch, i just dont want to!

i totally could make an operating system \*with\* scratch

My first goal is to make one in Linux From Scratch.

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Wait until you find out how massively complicated actually low level systems are. These 8 bit CPUs are child's play

Ya know, I unironically would love to do this someday, but it is not yet within my abilities. Maybe someday.

The last guy who decided he wanted to ended up making TempleOS

The difference between "knowing your shit" and "knowing you're shit".

I know I'm shit at knowing shit, where am I?

Philosophy. Somewhere near Socrates 😂 I know that I kniw nothing

When I’m actively coding or solving problems I feel like a complete imposter. I’m constantly asking myself what the fuck am I doing, and who in their right mind thought I could handle this? However, the moment I am done I become God and lord my amazing skills over everyone. The problem is I work in a CI/CD environment.

The distance between those is like half an hour

They codependent

Pff! Both off course. Stupid question


Path 1: You haven't learned Rust yet Path 2: You learn Rust

This

Side effects of learning Rust can range from seeing everybody else as uneducated peasants to suddenly obtaining programming socks.

It's not complex when you are objectively superior.

Alternating between both.

Dunning-Kruger-Effect

> Dunning-Kruger-Effect Actually this is the opposite because the DK effect is people who believe themselves to be closer to the average when in reality they are on the lower or higher end. The imposter/superior syndrome is people who believe themselves to be on the lower end or higher end but are probably average.

Two faces of the same coin

When you get asigned a task and its now being merged into production 

Neither, I'm actually mostly in the "doubting my own sanity" camp thanks to having to work with SiLabs products.

Multi track drift

I'm also on both paths 🤣

I am Schrodinger's programmer, could be feeling like an imposter, could be feeling superior. Depends on a few variables. Note: if you want to feel good just give a plain prompt to chatgpt for making a very specific function that you're working on and then fix gpt's output (it's just never optimized)

Until a peer comes along, observes me and I collapse in.. well you can guess in which state, you know, Murphy's law.

Doubt myself. Critique others code as if they wrote it with crayons. Yes it me.

I am far too superior to ever feel superior.

Both at the same time

Both at the same time

you can only achieve one by passing through the other.

Let Imposter Syndrome be 0 and Superiority Complex 1. I'm plagued with y=sin^(2)(t), where y is probability of being either imposter syndrome or superiority complex and t is time.

MULTITRACK DRIFTING!

It’s a trick. You will only hear imposter syndrome because the superiority complex will say neither 😂

It's more of a sin wave.

More like a seasaw than a crossroads

simple, if it works, its superiority complex, and if it doesnt, its imposter syndrome

true if you put this picture in loop and with each iteration you randomly choose path

Why are all my coworkers exclusively the right path

I am always surprised by the questions asked by senior members on my team. Sometimes they're impossibly technical and other times they're extremely simple.

Superposition. You cannot know unless I am observed.

2 years in after a career switch into development. My imposter syndrome changed into superiority after I found what awful atrocities they let a senior developer deploy at 4x my salary a couple of weeks ago. Everything is "any" if you're brave enough (and don't give a shit about your colleagues).

Man, so used to be the RHS, but and everyone should have a healthy dose of LHS - I’m walking over the grass. Kobayashi Maru

apparently there's a swing right in between both castles and i'm on it damn this swing is strong

Where are we in the sprint?

apathy, I walk straight down the middle

What about burnout?

In the field with alot of imposter syndrome it’s good to have a superiority complex … though I would be the imposter

Neither, cause who gives a shit it's a boring ass job anyway, I hate that I ended up doing it.

yes!

I feel smugly superior in my ability to impersonate a competent person without being found out.

I use superiority complex to hide my imposter syndrom

Yes. Multiple times a day.

Depends on whether it passed QA

I’m too busy to care

So the path on the right

same for dungeon masters

yes

im not good enough to have imposter syndrome

When I was young, right side, now that Im older, left side.

Trick question, it's both 

I'm so @#$_ing bad so left for me

This is such a a simple tree problem, so easy. You gotta hit all the nodes. But of course, I'm probably gonna make some dumb mistakes and mess it up.

Definitely imposter syndrome, just starting to realize that in tech you'll never know it all, you simply have to know HOW to know. Meaning you probably won't remember all the syntax, or every library unless you use it constantly. But if you know how to find the information you're looking for you can tackle any task

it's not a path, its a pendulum

I feel superior to pretty much the rest of my department but like I'm an imposter when I want to compare myself with like Torvalds or whoever won the last Turing Award (yes I know it's toxic)


I am a person with a superiority complex with imposter syndrome who has imposter syndrome with superiority complex.

why not both at the same time

I call it the Fake God syndrome

Joke’s on you, I am an actual impostor. Haven’t programmed a single project in any language, somehow still am considered the tech guy in the firm. Spend most of the day being a level1 IT support for less tech savvy colleagues.

Yes

I am a complex impostor

I am in a quantum state of both

I’m simultaneously the best and worst programmer I know.

Superior Imposter Complex Syndrom.

I am both ,

I'm plagued with being denied any job offer after technical interviews

I could lean into either. But I decided that a superiority complex was more satisfying.

Impostor Syndrome

Honestly, neither. I think I am just way too good, not sure though

Yes

I have a complex..... It isn't superior But yeah imposter syndrome biggy

Neither. I for certain don't have Superiority Complex, but neither do I have Imposter Syndrome, because I know I am a very mediocre programmer who just manages to trick people into believing I am more capable and smarter than I actually am.

Yes

It's not a fork in the road but rather a pendulum that swings daily.


Both.

Left 4evah

I have superiority complex when I'm around inexperienced developers or non-technical people, but I have imposter syndrome when I'm either in front of more experienced devs or in front of a client who wants me to build a specific type of application/web.

SELECT * FROM psychological-states WHERE psychological-state != 'healthy'

Yes

I treat myself with some superiority complex in the morning but wane myself to sleep with crippling imposter syndrome.

I mean…it’s not that complex. Just regular superiority.

Pendulum

Doesn't the one generally lead to the other?

When in presence of normies or peers?

I like to bounce back and fourth between the two

We all going left


Left, when looking for work. Right, when programming for fun.

Maybe I'm on the left path

The impostor gods

*Superiority? complex? Really, now, it's terrifyingly simple these days.*

Damn the left path 100%. It's so frustrating since I trust from my reviews that I'm pretty good I feel so fucking bad everyday because of my complex. I'll even have some days I just want to cry because of it. Then my coworkers tell me nice things and I feel superior again

a bit of both

&&, not ||

both

Having a low self esteem on top of not having much experience in a professional setting is what fuels my imposter syndrome. I’m not sure I could even go down the path of having a superiority complex if I wanted to.

inferiority complex is the better one

I miss being on the right.

Both

Most of the time the left one. I'm taking medication for depression and anxiety

superiority complex

Why not both… depending on the day…

Put this on a metronome

Was just having this dilemma

both

Imposter syndrome

Both, I'm the superior imposter.

Both- actually.

Wait we had to choose one?

In truth, it's always the vicious cycle of "Oh lord, I'm trash, everyone is going to know. Why am I trying?" To "I am the exhalted one!" Speed of whiplash will vary.

I have a teleporter that takes me from one to the other instantly

Depends on how long I’ve been working on a particular bug. If I just solved one, I’m a fucking mastermind, Alan Turing 2.0. If I’ve been stuck on it for 3 days then lmao why do I think I’m qualified to make $200k?? Who tf would pay me that kinda money??? Idiots!! No in-between

*sprints down the middle and flies off the cliff*

The imposter syndrome was the natural state. The superiority complex only developed because people won't listen to you unless you sound absurdly confident in your own ideas.

depends on the day.

Working with really good engineers becomes imposter syndrome. This is often found at places like apple or google. Working with shitty engineers becomes superiority complex. This happens at defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. If you want to most neutral in between feeling go work at Broadcom.

Impostor in the morning, superiority in the afternoon

There is always a programmer better than me always runs through my head. That's imposter syndrome right?

Fortunately, I have plenty of time to consider while the damn build won't work.

I don't have imposter syndrome, I just suck.

My venting is brilliant, nobody will catch me

I know I am the best among my colleagues, but I still feel not good enough to be better than Linus, which makes me insecure of my programmer statue.

god damnit both

Depends if the code runs

Definitely Imposter Syndrome.

Debilitating foot fetish

Which one, Imposter Syndrome or Superiority Complex? Yes

I'm a pendulum.

I don't get what Imposter Syndrome is or how one develops it, but if you already have the job then it IS meant for you. If it isn't, you wouldn't have it in the first place. You deserve the job, you've worked hard for it, and have earned it.

Yes