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Level 4: You realize all abstractions are leaky. Yet, you feel comfortable using appropriate abstractions based on the use cases.

I'm not sure about the OP, but I'm pretty sure you have built distributed systems in practice. :)

Hehe, I have only built small systems up to a few thousand nodes though, a long way to go to million autonomous node systems :)

Then there is level 11: You're Jeff Dean.