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I think you need the bitterness and pessimism of 30 years experience to have good judgement. A lot of new tech is developed or managed by 20 somethings who jus

• jb3689 4y ago
  A lot of new tech is also spun out of large companies where the original ideas were piloted internally (see Kubernetes, Bazel, a number of distributed databases)
• cheradenine_uk 4y ago
  I was just thinking that I could likely make a reasonably accurate guess to commenters age based on their reactions to this article. But you trigger an interesting question. Frankly, part of my value to an organisation /is/ the accrued scar tissue from working with exciting technology; "choose boring technology" has us greybeards nodding along as at least half our job is about saying "no" to things - by being good at making the value judgements about when something shiny is worth it, and to be worried about those unknown-unknowns as you're gonna get the call when it breaks at 3AM on a weekend. But: We're clearly not learning from this. Maybe if we don't let people burn themselves they won't discover the stove is hot? Is this just the way of things, or a function of the fact that older engineers are steadily driven out into 'management', and the industry keeps re-inventing the wheel every 5 years?