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The best engineers and craftsmen - even juniors - understand which work is core to the craft and the end result, and which is peripheral.

Unless you're hyper-specialised within a large organisation, you can't bring the same degree of obsession to every part in the process, there will always be edges.

Even an artisan who hand-builds everything that matters may take some shortcuts in where they get their tools from, or the products they use to maintain them.

In a big org, you might have a specialist for every domain, but on small teams you don't.

And ultimately I've got other things to do with my life besides learning to write Cmake from scratch.



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