Are You a Competent Developer?

Do you have a mental checklist that you go through anytime you write a piece of code whether it's AI or handwritten or not? Because if you don't, that's a problem. Because I'll tell you right now, any competent developer, and I'm using that word kind of strongly in my view, any competent developer has a checklist. You know, at the very least, they ask like, is this solving the correct problem? That's the number one thing to ask. Are we solving the correct problem? Are we solving it correctly? Are there issues with this? Is there something I don't understand about the solution? Is there an edge case I'm missing? The single most important thing about any solution, whether you're talking about a DSA problem or a system architecture or a low-level design type thing, it's the single most important thing. You got to ask like, am I actually doing this correctly? Do I fully understand the question? And you know, with all this use of AI and copy pasting, some of these habits get lost. And we are seeing it. We are seeing it with a new generation of people who did not learn the fundamentals and did not learn these