We've all seen the archetypes: the developer who boasts about knowing seven different programming languages, the interview prep champion who can solve a LeetCode Hard in their sleep, and the coding bootcamp graduate eager to write thousands of lines of code.
Early in a software engineering journey, it's easy to mistake these milestones for the destination.
I used to think that becoming a better engineer meant learning more languages, more frameworks, and solving more algorithmic problems.
Then I started building larger applications.
That's when I realized something that completely changed my perspective.
