While I agree with many of the other comments here, I'll offer one more way in which programming is more difficult today: speed. 30 years ago, nearly all proje

While I agree with many of the other comments here, I'll offer one more way in which programming is more difficult today: speed. 30 years ago, nearly all projects I worked on were waterfall and my development team was far more relaxed. Spending days tinkering and thinking of a good solution was valued over sprints and rapid commits. Of course, we got far less done back then, but it was also less stressful (in my experience, at least).