We don’t talk enough about the feeling of learning something deeply - the slow, sometimes frustrating and painful process that forges real intuition.
As software engineers, we know this feeling intimately. The slow burn of mastering a new concept or language. The pressure and anxiety of resolving your first production issue. The endless hours spent debugging a complex system that just won’t work - until, at last, it does. And how that struggle itself is the point: it’s what transforms a beginner coder into a software engineer with real intuition.