There is a particular kind of pain in software work: sitting in a meeting about a thing you already know how to build. Not vaguely. Not optimistically. You can see the first version. You can see the shape of the data, the awkward part of the UI, the one integration that will probably hurt, the test that should exist before anyone trusts it, the part that can be ugly for a week, and the part that must be right from the beginning. The work is not done, but the form is already present in your head. Then the meeting continues. The discussion moves through alignment, ownership, prioritization, stakeholder expectations, dependency mapping, launch risk, follow-up meetings, and the increasingly ceremonial question of who should "drive" the thing. None of those words are fake. Some of them point at real constraints. But the emotional fact remains: the software could have started existing an hour ago. This is not the impatience of someone who does not understand organizations.…