> It used to be kind of like being a brain surgeon, and it's becoming more like being a plumber. People keep saying this, and people who own software companies

> It used to be kind of like being a brain surgeon, and it's becoming more like being a plumber. People keep saying this, and people who own software companies REALLY seem to want it to be true, but as far as I can tell, it's the opposite. I occasionally work with kids fresh out of college and they find themselves completely lost in the maze of modern software stacks that abstract distributed file systems and dependency management and security that fail for what seem like incredibly arcane reasons ("what the heck is a trusted certificate authority and why doesn't it like mine?"). Developing software today requires fairly deep knowledge (or access to somebody with deep knowledge) of nearly the entire history of software development.