What actually makes you senior (News)

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  What up nerds?

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  I'm Jared, and this is Changed Log News for the week of Monday, December 1st, 2025.

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  December already?

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  I guess it's time to get ready for our eighth annual State of the Log episode.

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  Okay, let's get into this week's news.

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  What actually makes you senior?

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  Here's Matthias Lima, quote, people love to describe senior engineers with a big checklist,

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  architecture, communication, ownership, leadership, et cetera.

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  But if you strip away the title, the salary and the years of experience,

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  there's one core skill that separates senior plus engineers from everyone else, reducing ambiguity.

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  Everything else flows from that."

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  One of the reasons that senior engineers are worth their salaries is that they ask great questions.

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  Questions like, what problem are we actually trying to solve?

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