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It also gets easier the more things you already know. Nowadays learning a new domain is mainly a mapping exercise. Oh this is kind of like X. Neat so that is basically a twist on Y. Especially after you’ve lived through a few hype cycles and start to realize there’s not all that much that’s foundationally new under the sun.

I’ve also worked on web frontend, games and physics, web backend, databases, near metal, very far from metal. I never felt like anything was out of my reach to pick up while working on said thing for the first time at a new company.