I didn’t realize it at the time, but being a completionist gamer was training me to think in systems. That mindset is now more valuable in software engineering than memorizing documentation.

A lot of software firms are coming out with automated security tools. Tools that are effectively context-aware auditing for code, especially AI code. I’m personally building something similar right now. As AI coding rapidly improves, and these types of tools are rolled out,

People don’t pay dev shops just to write code… they pay to buy back time. The best shops don’t just build fast, they prevent future work from ever existing.

Being a great software engineer now means designing systems and taste… logic fused with creativity.