Look at an open source project you frequently use. I’m talking redis, llama.cpp, vim, serde, wgpu, whatever. Literally anything. Rebuild it. That’s it, that’

Look at an open source project you frequently use. I’m talking redis, llama.cpp, vim, serde, wgpu, whatever. Literally anything. Rebuild it. That’s it, that’s how you advance at this point. Try to make it perfect for you. Rediscover why some things in that original project are unintuitive. Learn the trade offs that were made first hand. According to the pragmatic bookshelf “a master has failed more times than an expert has tried” So start failing at rebuilding these big powerful tools.