finishing : done is better than perfect

I used to chase every new framework and language that came out. Shiny new tool? I’m there. But the older I get, the more I notice that tech trends cycle. The ideas stick around; the names change.

These days I’d rather go deep in one or two languages than spread thin across ten. Ironically, AI has made it faster than ever to pick up a new language — but that only makes depth in your base language more valuable, not less. If you can think clearly in one language, you can translate that thinking anywhere.

Without that depth, you end up knowing a bit of everything and not enough of anything. You can write the syntax but you can’t see the patterns. You fix the bug but you don’t understand why it happened.

I’m not saying ignore new tech. Just approach it with enough experience to know when it’s genuinely better and when it’s just different.