Beautiful read. Thank you.
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> Maybe all methodology is just mutually agreed-upon fiction that happens to produce results?
Good news! *All of computer science is this way.* There’s nothing universally fundamental about transistors, or Turing machines, or OOP, or the HTTP protocol. They’re all just abstractions that fit, because they worked.
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When should I stop learning and start building? My coworker wrote absolutely ATROCIOUS code, alone, for the past decade. But he was BUILDING that whole time. He’s not up to date on modern web practices, but who cared? He built.