Be Honest With Yourself

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Be Honest With Yourself

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Developers staring at a bottle labeled "Hard to swallow pills" while refusing to accept that good software is often boring and technologically uninteresting. We'd rather build overcomplicated monstrosities with seventeen microservices and blockchain integration than admit the best solution might be a simple CRUD app with proper documentation. The real 10x engineer is the one who picks the boring, reliable solution and goes home at 5pm.

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