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At the risk of sounding super condescending... Staff Engineering is just constantly dodging over-complication. So you end up feeling a bit dumb because you just end up saying things that feel *incredibly* obvious.

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9 Dec 2024

This actually matches with things I've been told from long-term seniors in every technical field though. As you get more experienced, you end up relying more and more on fundamentals.

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9 Dec 2024

There's accuracy in the bell curve meme. But you gotta actually do the work and get over that hump. The difference between novice and master mostly isn't in what they write, but why.

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9 Dec 2024

The novice generally isn't aware of the complicated solutions, so the code is simple. The master has considered and rejected the complicated solution, so the code is simple.