"Admit you’re passed your prime and move on." sounds like something a junior programmer would say before suggesting something hip but incredibly stupid. Like r

"Admit you’re passed your prime and move on." sounds like something a junior programmer would say before suggesting something hip but incredibly stupid. Like reimplementing a distributed multithreaded C++ processing cluster in NodeJS to make the codebase more accessible. Or like those fashionable people that try to replace a grep shell script with a multi-node ElasticSearch cluster in the cloud, at only 100x the operating costs. The knowledge that novel does not equal unquestionably good ages extremely well. The "innovator" of today may well be a "debunked hype" by tomorrow.