Have you seen Jonathan's Blow talk that touched on this? I enjoyed it. I think his fundamental point is that as we build on complexity, future generations lose

Have you seen Jonathan's Blow talk that touched on this? I enjoyed it. I think his fundamental point is that as we build on complexity, future generations lose track of the underpinnings and things start failing for unexpected reasons and we may eventually lose our capability entirely. But he does meander a lot. I've definitely seen this where I work - the "old guard" setup the system that put the company in a prime market position, the newer people are just doing API calls and scratching their heads if it doesn't work. Here's a reddit link because YouTube is blocked here. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bq1dt6/jonathan_blow_preventing_the_collapse_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bq1dt6/jonatha...