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geetansh on engineering

fast is not the skill. knowing where not to dig is the skill.

When people marvel at high-leverage engineers moving fast, they assume it’s typing speed, keyboard shortcuts, or raw brute force.

It almost never is. The fastest builders are fast because they eliminate 90% of the dead ends before writing a single line. Experience is mostly a catalog of traps you know how to step around.