The aviation industry has an expression: "there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots". Young, inexperienced pilots often ta

The aviation industry has an expression: "there are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots". Young, inexperienced pilots often take unnecessary risks and occasionally learn important lessons - sometimes terrifying lessons. Those lessons lead to a more cautious approach to flying as they grow older. It seems to me that boring tech is equivalent to cautious flying. Experience matters. Maybe its time to co-opt that expression into the developer world - "there are old coders and there are bold coders but there are no old bold coders". Ageism is a problem in the tech world. Experience will almost always consider (maybe even prefer) boring tech - generally for good reasons. Perhaps its time to value experience a bit more than we have.