I Got Arrogant. I Lost Everything. And Yet Here I Am, Standing at the Gate — A Reflection from 7 Years of Code

Seven years of writing Rust, TypeScript, and Solidity. Same desk, same tempo, every day. This isn't a technical post. But I think the lesson behind it might be the most important thing I've learned as an engineer. This morning, I woke up, stared at the ceiling, and thought: "I've been at this for se