The Half-Life of "New" in Software Engineering
The engineers who stand the test of time aren't the ones who chased every new thing, they're the ones who knew what was worth chasing. Every field has a surface and a foundation. The ones who only ever work the surface stay busy but never quite arrive anywhere. The ones who go deep find that the fundamentals they learned ten years ago are still paying interest today. That's not nostalgia. That's how engineering actually compounds ... not by accumulating tools, but by developing the judgment to know which problems are new and which ones just look that way.
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