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You've hit the nail on the head. Greybeards now literally have grey beards. It must be hard to have pioneered software development, and watch it change under y
by phist_mcgee 5y ago
You've hit the nail on the head.
Greybeards now literally have grey beards. It must be hard to have pioneered software development, and watch it change under your feet at an escalating rate. I think the measures of a good engineer in the 80s/90s was more focused around 'hacker' culture. Speed, memory footprint, 'cleverness'.
These days, a good engineer can scale, be flexible, and is a polyglot. I think the goal posts have shifted for the old schoolers, and it may be just one of those things.
As they say, evolve or die.
- t-writescode 5y agoI’ll just sit on the sidelines, taking hackily-written messes of software written under tight deadlines and performance improve the heck out of it and make my money being able to deliver that narrow area of value, thank you :) Some of us “evolve” by becoming specialists. Edit: and I’ll take backend code written by a skilled backend engineer and infra code written by a skilled dev ops person over all-of-it written by a “polyglot/front-end-dev-on-assignment” every day of the week. Just keep us away from the front end, we can’t make things pretty or interactive for garbage.