In defense of starting with bloatware: my learning journey from Next.js to syscalls

--- Note: Upon publishing, readers pointed out I may have fallen for survivorship bias and didn't do enough steelmanning. They are right. Thank you for helping me spot my biases and think more clearly. I: From "This worked for me" to "When does this work?". Magic tools lead you to a local maxima fast and provide dopamine along the way. You go 'from 0 to something' quickly but panic when you want…