I’m almost certain that you know the following engineer I’m depicting.

Two years ago, they were the one pushing for better practices. They mentored juniors. They wrote documentation nobody asked for. In design reviews, they asked the annoying-but-useful questions.

Now they roll their eyes in meetings. Every new initiative gets “we’ve tried this before”, c…

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