"Of Course" Erodes Trust Faster Than Bad Code ... Two Words That Are Killing Your Career

You already have the job or the internship. You're on the team. You're in the meetings. You're in the Slack channels. And the thing that's going to hold you back has nothing to do with your code. Someone you work with says "hey, could we do X?" and you say "yeah, of course." Feels confident. Feels like you just proved you've got it. But you gave an answer that contains zero information. No cost. No timeline. No tradeoff. No indication of whether you even understood the question. And now you're e