From fullstack assumptions to protocol assumptions

A practical note on how product engineering instincts transfer into smart contract review, and where they do not.

Fullstack work teaches you to think about users, states, permissions, and failure paths. That maps well into smart contract work, but it does not transfer perfectly.

In a web app, a bad assumption can often be patched behind an API, a dashboard, or a database migration. In a protocol, the assumption may already be public, funded, and hard to reverse.

That is the shift I am practicing: less trust in happy paths, more attention to who can call what, when state changes, and what value can move when the system is under pressure.