Technical Curiosity: You want to understand how systems actually work, not just restart them when they break. You dig into logs, trace errors, and don’t stop until you find the root cause
Systems Thinking: You know writing code is the easy part now, because AI tools draft a lot of it. What matters is deciding what to build and how it fits. You think about where a change lives, what it might break, who maintains it, and whether it makes sense for the business, not just whether it runs