> Direct experience of the last decade is a lot more relevant with a lot more lessons to learn that were never even on the radar in the past. Do you make that

> Direct experience of the last decade is a lot more relevant with a lot more lessons to learn that were never even on the radar in the past. Do you make that statement with the experience to back it up? Or do you make it because "if it were useful someone would have done it"? What if everyone is thinking the same thing as you are? Beyond what other people have said, we are also a relatively young industry. There aren't that many people with 30, 40 years experience in the field. When I got my CS degree, 13 years ago now, there was no such thing as a "software engineering" degree, and CS was mostly focused on CS rather than the sort of thing you're talking about. I also wonder how much collective knowledge we throw away with pushing developers into management. Or the outsourcing in the late 90's and early 00's. Or ageism. We are purposefully driving people with knowledge out of the industry.