[hinkley]

One of my 'secrets of my success' moments was realizing that one of the grind areas I reject has to do with the all of the processes of building the application. You stare at that stuff long enough and you might not know how the application does what it does, but you have a pretty good idea of where it does them.

And inasmuch as you've also improved the testing situation, you've also created a system that allows you to iterate faster, which you are intimately familiar with, allowing you to poke at the system in a way that provides you feedback on your hypotheses. Meaning you can learn about the rest of the system on your own schedule instead of being hand-fed bits of tribal knowledge (which often turns out to no longer be entirely correct anyway).