There’s a deeper layer to this joke — both LLMs and a person with imposter syndrome can make the same mistakes.
LLMs keep iterating to improve the code, while the person may drift towards self-doubt and defeat.
Tomer Burg
Conversation with an LLM if it had imposter syndrome
“Here’s the script you asked for”
“It crashed, there’s a syntax error in line 634 and a missing import”
“I’m sorry. I screwed up”
“Can you fix it?”
“I’m not smart enough to fix it. I’m useless. I give up”
