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Mountain of Stupidity → Valley of Despair (part 1)

27 Jul 2026

Even after passing every certification Anthropic offers, you can still feel yourself tumbling down the steep slope from the "Mountain of Stupidity" into the uncomfortable "Valley of Despair".

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Mountain of Stupidity → Valley of Despair (part 2)

27 Jul 2026

Quick recap for anyone joining mid-series: I climbed out of the post-certification "Valley of Despair" (that humbling moment where you realise how much you didn't know you didn't know) not by reading more, but by building the same small thing three different ways in C#, until the differences between them stopped being abstract.

C# Claude Anthropic API

Mountain of Stupidity → Valley of Despair (part 3)

27 Jul 2026

Quick recap for anyone joining mid-series: this is the last of three posts built around one small idea — building the same thing three different ways in C# until the differences between them stopped being abstract.

C# Claude Anthropic API