This MLS project has made me an immeasurably better software engineer.

It’s thrilling to look back on old code and shake my head at past Jeff. 😅

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Nice.

This is the best and worst thing about tackling hard projects

Low time preference 💪🏼

can you give some examples of what it has made you better in? was it like in understand cryptography?

This is one of the less-discussed benefits of open standards. Implementing them means working to an archictectural design that's been inspected, dissected and refactored by a group of specialists. So with that part of thinking done for you, you can have a laser focus on the quality of your implementation.