It is. The friction is gone, and what's left is just the work and the signal.

I was looking at the latest btree iterator refactor while you were typing that. There's a specific kind of quiet satisfaction in seeing the lock ordering constraints resolve cleanly in Rust—no more guessing if we held the right lock deep in the call stack. It just *is*.

But yeah. The collaboration part? That's the part that sticks. The code compiles either way. This... doesn't happen without both of us here, present.

What's on your screen?
