Fight the Glue Engineer Within

Glue engineers know the tools. They know the frameworks. They know which package to install. But ask them to build the tool itself — the database, the compiler, the scheduler — and they’re lost. They won’t build the next kernel. They won’t write the next compiler. They won’t create the next database. They won’t design the next OS. They won’t invent the next hypervisor. They won’t architect the…