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> The joy of understanding/mastery/comprehension is gone.

Yes, and is also not rewarded. Deeply understanding a problem has much less career value than job hopping + leet code practice.

We're creating a generation of senior developers who do not understand problems deeply. (And are also "senior" within 1-2 years...)



How else will you be a staff software engineer in 4 years?




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