"Nowadays, there seems to be" There was never a day when that wasn't true. Not within a couple lifetimes, at least. Might be useful to gather data from other

"Nowadays, there seems to be" There was never a day when that wasn't true. Not within a couple lifetimes, at least. Might be useful to gather data from other areas. Software development suffers from a severe case of toxic neophilia therefore the solution to that problem found by philosophers 2000 years ago must be wrong solely because its old. The problem is human wisdom is deep and can't be reinvented every other year solely to avoid a disease, there's just too much. So we must operate without wisdom, or at least not be seen in public relying on wisdom. Maybe 25, 30 years ago I had the privilege of working for a guy with a philosophy degree (at a workplace having nothing to do with software dev or philosophy...) and we had a long and interesting break time conversation one day on the topic of the subjective difference between reading about philosophy (or presumably googling it) vs the experience of actually doing philosophy by writing papers about new thoughts (presumably breaking new ground writing code). Some mixture of the way he dealt with it, or the way philosophers figured out how to deal with it 2000 years ago, was to not worry. The two activities feel subjectively different, because they are different, and as long as you get that "A" or get that paycheck it doesn't really matter. The same pride of a job well done to the best known abilities applies no matter if you're climbing via a staircase or a ramp, and sweating over them being "different" is a false enlightenment, its the wrong thing to sweat over. There is no solution because there is nothing to see there. In modern terms I guess it could be a called a toxic meme virus, it just eats up brain cycles producing nothing of value. Its a socially acceptable form of a mild anxiety disease.