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It’s fiction. No one is a master. There’s always stuff to learn.

Competence is a better term. What it looks like is being able to make things happen quickly with minimal errors or problems.

Unless you’re talking about the most extreme cases ..... Fabrice Bellard and John Carmack .... genius developers who are true masters. There are few of these.




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