There's a quiet risk with experience: becoming rigid.

With agentic software development, I've noticed experience doesn't automatically help—but when it stays adaptable, it compounds.

What matters now:
• delegation instead of control
• judgment over throughput
• experimentation without attachment
• writing clear intent
• staying curious even when you "should already know"

Wrote a reflection on what still needs practice.

https://www.einbacker.com/essays/experience-compounds.html

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