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I've been in the industry for 20 years. For 23 years, every time a discussion like this the same answers come up: - People aren't craftsmen like the used to b
by jf22 3y ago
I've been in the industry for 20 years.
For 23 years, every time a discussion like this the same answers come up:
- People aren't craftsmen like the used to be. (new gen is worse)
- Young people learn faster. (youthful vigor has advantages)
- The industry changes so fast. (tech is like that)
- People are only in it for the money. (as always)
The older I get the more I feel like nothing actually changes besides the colors of our IDE.
- JohnFen 3y agoI've been in the industry for nearly twice as long, and I agree that it was about 20 years ago that you started commonly hearing that sentiment. But it wasn't a common one earlier than that.
- natpalmer1776 3y agoCould it be because that 40 years ago there wasn’t an industry in the sense that we have now to have those sentiments about? Seems like the folks around in the 80’s were standing on the shoulders of the original researchers who pioneered the whole shebang, there was no “old blood” to really complain.
- JohnFen 3y agoThe industry was certainly immature, but it had absolutely existed for a while (you could argue since the '60s, although I've heard good arguments to place its start in the '50s). When I entered it, there were already graybeards, and I was the young whippersnapper.