The AI Imposter Syndrome: The Quiet Anxiety of Building With AI

Did I actually build this, or did AI? The new default: ask first, build faster, question what it means later. There’s often a question that comes up after you’ve shipped something: How much of this was actually my work? Claude, GPT, Cursor, whatever the tool, AI has become a default first move for many developers, myself included. Before we write, before we search, sometimes before we’ve fully formed the thought, we ask. It’s fast. It works.