I'm in that age bracket myself, and have fortunately avoided most of the abuses described here. Like the other posters are saying, the real problem is that lea

I'm in that age bracket myself, and have fortunately avoided most of the abuses described here. Like the other posters are saying, the real problem is that learning how to develop good software (or any other technical product) takes time. This is an experience-based subject - art? craft? - and while I have seen many very talented younger engineers and developers, their lack of experience with a whole list of factors that don't involve slapping some code into an IDE, or what have you, usually means they end up being far less productive than people like to assume. Bay Area culture has produced a lot of great things, but this stereotype has got to go.