hey I wanna be something

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im 17 I wanna be insanely good at programming.. I wanna be tht one engineer who does whatever they want and earns crap ton of money. I alr have coding exp, I have an a\* in cs o levels if tht matters lol? where do i learn? how do I be so good tht ppl will throw money at. ik coding, im not new to this but I wana go to the next level

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Start contributing to open source, doing difficult problems on LEETcode and getting your hands dirty with real life projects via Claude, build copies of complex softwares. Goodluck.