The imposter invasion has an even more insidious effect: the creation of software that sounds great (because making it sound great was its authors' forte) but a

The imposter invasion has an even more insidious effect: the creation of software that sounds great (because making it sound great was its authors' forte) but actually sucks to work with (because making good software was not their forte). It has performance issues, security holes, no observability, doesn't scale well, has insane configuration or dependency issues, etc. FAANG companies in particular are full of this crap, written for the "brag post" so the author could get their promotion, then effectively abandoned as they went elsewhere before all the cheesy shortcuts became apparent. Slick talking has replaced sound design as the most valuable skill a software engineer can have, and it shows everywhere.