Oh sure. Three decades worth of fuckups isn't something you can get in a bootcamp... But I think understanding that the greybeard over in the corner has those

Oh sure. Three decades worth of fuckups isn't something you can get in a bootcamp... But I think understanding that the greybeard over in the corner has those three decades, and that even if they fucked up using Perl running on hardware they physically touched/owned - they probably learnt some critical lessons that directly apply to your $language-de-jour running on $cloud-platform-of-the-week... Become the person who'll get told, and listen too, their war stories...