Sort of. I can't speak to this being a thing that's always possible in professional environments, but the trick was to aim for reduced volume in everything I d

Sort of. I can't speak to this being a thing that's always possible in professional environments, but the trick was to aim for reduced volume in everything I do. Much less code - and therefore less of a "product" - but much more intense design/conceptualization. Flexing that crystallized intelligence. I am more attuned to deep dives that aren't just muscle memory acts now. If it does reduce to muscle memory I get suspicious about it being automatable. This means I don't spend the same kind of time within the feedback loop of the tools like I used to. I am not building big systems, but neither am I fighting them as much.