Reading the standard library

The team I learned the most from didn't have great tools. They had a great habit of reading each other's pull requests in full, including the parts that weren't theirs.

If a config file has more than a dozen options, half of them aren't being used. The other half are being used in ways the original author didn't predict.

Most retry logic I've removed turned out to be hiding a real bug. The retries made the failure invisible, and the bug compounded for months in the background.

I trust monorepos more in the second year than I did in the first. Most of the early friction goes away once the tooling catches up.