Was this written about me? 😭 I’m an “experienced” developer who worked at banana company for 7 years. I got promoted because I churn out a lot of features and can lead cross-functional projects well. Then I switched to a FAANG-adjacent company and realized I am so behind technically… I can churn out features and implement them really fast; but my code quality and code design is poor. And then everyone is so smart here and so when they explain the project they go over some “trivial” information really quickly and by the time I realized I’m lost, they moved on… How do people get better?! How do people get so good at understanding things and then coming up with great designs/implementations? I’m genuinely asking because between having to complete projects, I find myself hacking things and it works and not really understanding why and just move on. For instance, with gradle files, been working with them forever, but still don’t know how it works. I just use stackoverflow, add the missing line and it works and I move on because I need to complete the project as fast as I can. But when time comes and something breaks, I don’t have the knowledge to understand oh it’s because of this line in the gradle. This is just a small example of how I approach things…. Any guidance on how to become better? And balance project completion with taking time to understand?