You’re totally right, systems at scale aren’t solo efforts. I think my goal is to be the kind of engineer who can prototype ambitious ideas from scratch, unders

You’re totally right, systems at scale aren’t solo efforts. I think my goal is to be the kind of engineer who can prototype ambitious ideas from scratch, understand all the layers, and be dangerous across the stack. Also really appreciate the reminder about soft skills. I'm starting to realize that being able to talk to people and translate messy needs into clean systems might be more rare than knowing five frameworks.