Let’s embark on a thought experiment. Envision yourself as a driving virtuoso, conquering city streets with gear shifts smoother than a buttered dolphin on a rainbow. Your turns rival a ninja’s wit, and parallel parking? You could slide a spacecraft into a closet unscathed.
It turns out that most of a developer’s tasks end up being tactical activities, such as adding a text box here, adding a checkbox there, fixing a bug, or working with an outage. However, embodying the boy scout rule, one can always find small tidying opportunities that directly impact code quality and shift the developer’s work from tactical to strategic.