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Year 1: Everything is a crisis. Every bug is existential. You're debugging CSS at 2 AM wondering if you're cut out for this career while your tears blur the screen.
Year not 1: npm install confetti and call it a day. Someone else will maintain it. Someone else will debug it. Someone else will cry about it. The circle of life continues.
Experience teaches you the most valuable skill in software development: strategic apathy. Why reinvent the wheel when there's a package for that? Why stress about implementation details when Google exists and Stack Overflow has already solved your problem 47 times? You've evolved from "I must understand everything" to "does it work? ship it."
The real wisdom is knowing that future you is technically "some other dev" too.
