You open LinkedIn and scroll through your feed. One non-technical person proudly announces that "SaaS is dead! I just replaced Notion in one weekend". Another has built an army of AI agents that implements their entire backlog while they're enjoying a coffee.

But you? You've been stuck on the same bug for the last two hours. You're frustrated, questioning your life choices and thinking to yourself: "Am I even cut out for this job?"

Sound familiar?

Imposter syndrome is nothing new in the world of software engineering. But with AI evolving faster than new JavaScript frameworks being released, it's becoming easier than ever to compare our everyday struggles with everyone else's seemingly amazing achievements. And when AI can suddenly do things that we've spent years learning, where does that leave our confidence in our own skills?

In this session, we'll explore the psychology behind imposter syndrome, why we compare ourselves to others and how AI might be changing the way we see our own competence. We'll look at why we sometimes struggle to take credit for our own accomplishments, how self-doubt can make us play smaller than we should and whether using AI makes our achievements less valuable.

But we're not spending 50 minutes feeding our inner critic. We'll explore practical ways to challenge those thoughts, recognize our own progress and (ironically) use AI as a learning partner instead of another reason to doubt ourselves.

AI is already changing what it means to be a developer. Let's not let it decide how much we're worth as one.