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“I don’t know how things ‘usually’ break,” Kaylee told me over a cafeteria oat milk latte. “So I just look at how they could break. Sometimes senior engineers have seen so many disasters that they’ve stopped imagining new ones.”

“I used to think my job was to teach new hires ‘the way we do things,’” Derek admits. “Kaylee taught me that my real job is to protect their ignorance — just long enough for them to see what we’ve all stopped seeing.” Of course, it hasn’t all been smooth. Kaylee admits to late-night imposter syndrome spirals, a painful lesson about git rebase versus merge, and one legendary incident where she accidentally triggered a test alert to the entire on-call roster at 3 a.m. ncg kaylee

“I cried in the supply closet,” she says with a wince. “Then I wrote a post-mortem, automated the fix, and bought donuts for the on-call team.” “I don’t know how things ‘usually’ break,” Kaylee

That post-mortem — titled “Oops, Did I Do That? (And How to Never Do It Again)” — has since been adapted as a template for the company’s entire incident-response training. Kaylee doesn’t know if she’ll stay in infrastructure. She doesn’t know if she wants to be a manager, a principal engineer, or something else entirely. But she does know one thing: the power of a beginner’s mind in a world of experts. “Kaylee taught me that my real job is