After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programmi

After 20+ years as a professional dev I suppose I can safely pronounce on software development and it is pretty rotten compared even to when I started programming in the mid 1990s, which may already have been after the truly beautiful age of programming. I say "listen to the young". They are looking at this craft and they see an industry. Here is some young man trying to recreate an aesthetic experience with the utilitarian tools of his world and the HN posse dogpiles like a pack of zombies. Predictable hot takes and prostration before the machine they worship.