Yesterday I opened my project and just stared at it. Not in a dramatic way. More like: I opened Zed, looked at the file tree, and immediately wanted to close it. On the left it looked like a real backend already: auth.go , tickets.go , invitations.go , users.go , migrations, models, storage, configs. The kind of tree that makes you think: okay, something serious is happening here. Then you open the files. Half of the handlers are stubs. Some things are wired. Some things are half-wired. Some names already feel too permanent. And in my head there is this stupid list growing by itself: mobile API later, admin panel, roles, tenants, deployment, maybe Kubernetes, maybe not, what if we need events, what if the permissions model becomes ugly, what if I build this wrong from the start. The feature still doesn’t exist. Nothing works end to end. But the project already feels heavy. That specific moment kills me more than debugging does. Debugging at least means something exists.…