I've been a software developer for 2 years now and going by the "day in the life" videos on TikTok, you'd think I should feel confident by now. I don't. Yet. Most days still involve second guessing my technical decisions, worrying I'm not progressing fast enough, and quietly hoping nobody notices. The Reality It's easy to spiral into overthinking and let the imposter syndrome take over. Is this actually a good way to code this? Will the next person think “what idiot wrote this” ? Am I too slow? Other developers seem to finish tasks faster than me. Should I know more than I do at this point? That constant background noise can get loud. Sometimes it's hard to think about anything other than mistakes I've made. Are people keeping track of how many bugs I've released to production? Do they think I'm bad at my job? The paranoid part of my brain says yes. The pragmatic part knows that every developer creates bugs. Being “good” at this job isn’t about never getting things wrong.…