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This sounds like an interesting perspective. Could you elaborate a bit more on what it is different today, and what you are comparing the present situation to?

• kcplate 4y ago
  This is just my opinion, but I think we have compartmentalized development too much. Atomized it a level where the individual parts only care about themselves and are now too simple that the parts lose sight of the whole. I hate the “well my piece works” attitude that I have seen grow over the last 5-10 years. Likely due to bastardized scrum/agile with tiny little bite sized dev stories and tasks that in my mind have turned developers into cogs in a assembly line. 30+ years ago, almost all devs were brilliant, creators, engineers and problem solvers. In my estimation 25% are brilliant today with the remaining seemingly unable to write a single line of code unless the requirements are spelled out in hyper levels of detail, with design standards, engineering guides, and all manners of cheat sheets to contain them in a box where their screwups are contained. rant over