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It requires slowing down. Unheard of.



Exactly. And ditching the "move fast and break things" mindset. Learn your craft and embrace the learning process. Always be curious about how the stuff below your layer works, fundamentally. Recurse on searching for the seminal works that defined those layers.

This seems appropriately relevant today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208627

We (the industry) have built up so many layers upon layers and frameworks designed to make things easier that it just seems to attract newcomers to software engineering with this mindset that all it takes is to start with the sample-app for a high level framework, hack on it with trial and error until it does something they want, and then take to social media with proclamations of "Look! I built a thing! You can hire me to build your thing now!"




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