Blame the “how” all you want but the primary blame is in the “who”. The industry has grown much larger and more quickly than the talent base. If the NBA were t

Blame the “how” all you want but the primary blame is in the “who”. The industry has grown much larger and more quickly than the talent base. If the NBA were to suddenly add 200 teams, the average quality of each team would go down. How many “pretty good” programmers do you know now sitting in Director level or CTO positions? How many programmers with good aptitude find themselves being promoted prematurely as an organization struggles to keep that talent on staff? The quality of the average software team has been greatly diluted, the industry shows too little regard for experience, and hackers end up running the show on so many software teams. Naturally, the software looks like it was coded by hackers as a result.