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> People I consider senior software engineers have a can-do-anything vibe about them.

I feel I can do anything as well, because if I can't then I will simply find a way to learn it, because to me it's not a question of whether I'm capable of learning it but how fast I'm capable of learning it. So I'd be careful with that vibe as a heuristic ;-)

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In my experience, it's more a mark of "do do" than "can do".

i.e. how far along are you in the progression of... - being given clearly defined tasks - self-guided work on feature level - self-guided work on project level - self-guided work on team level - self-guided work across teams etc.

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