I share your sentiment with regard to ageism. Thank you for bringing up this topic and highlighting how wrong and ugly it is! And, you are right, this comment

I share your sentiment with regard to ageism. Thank you for bringing up this topic and highlighting how wrong and ugly it is! And, you are right, this comment seems pro-ageist. I am happy to clarify (especially if there are some ageists out there who would have felt emboldened in their prejudice having misinterpreted my observation)! I am not referring to the younger generation being magically more capable than a veteran technologist. I am referring to tech leadership in the government (say a general or colonel) being so technically inexperienced/naive that a novice technologist (the snot nosed kid) will probably be more capable in directing software projects. You can see a similar/identical sentiment mentioned during a scathing review of the military in the resignation letter of the pentagon’s first chief software officer as seen (bits and pieces at least ) here: Chaillan announced his resignation in a blistering letter at the start of September, saying military officials were repeatedly put in charge of cyber initiatives for which they lacked experience, decrying Pentagon “laggards” and absence of funding. “[W]e are setting up critical infrastructure to fail,” he said in his letter, which made only cursory reference to advances by China. “We would not put a pilot in the cockpit without extensive flight training; why would we expect someone with no IT experience to be close to successful? [ . . .]While we wasted time in bureaucracy, our adversaries moved further ahead.” https://www.ft.com/content/f939db9a-40af-4bd1-b67d-10492535f8e0 https://www.ft.com/content/f939db9a-40af-4bd1-b67d-10492535f... (If you are paywalled try this https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Ff939db9a-40af-4bd1-b67d-10492535f8e0 https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...)