The Zoom-Out: When 15 Years of Code Meets the "Ecosystem Blind Spot"

Author: Omid Farhang Published: February 25, 2026 Reading Time: 4 min

It happened to me this morning. After 15 years in the trenches—building frontend architectures, dipping into the backend, leading teams, and surviving countless framework wars—I hit a wall. Not a technical wall, but a conceptual one. I realized I didn’t know what Corepack was. I’ve never actually used Yarn. I’ve heard of test‑managers and code‑generation tools like Orval, but I’ve never managed to actually run one in a production pipeline. ...

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