'I Created My First AI-Assisted Pull Request and I Feel Like a Fraud' — Imposter Syndrome Thread
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A developer's honest account of using AI to create their first PR — and the resulting imposter syndrome — hit 82 points and 77 comments (0.94 comment ratio) on HN. The discussion reveals a common but rarely articulated tension: developers who ship working code with AI assistance but feel they didn't 'earn' it. This is the human-psychology complement to the METR study showing half of AI PRs wouldn't be merged by real maintainers.