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I agree, something that's never made sense to me is the fixation on best practices as static rather than situational. I've worked with so many smart people who

I agree, something that's never made sense to me is the fixation on best practices as static rather than situational. I've worked with so many smart people who refuse to entertain any analysis or options in a given situation that don't fall along the lines of what's in fashion in the given era. Despite their situation varying wildly from the conditions under which certain ideas or practices originated. Despite their situation presenting a certain dimension that begs for the solution to be chosen around it. The field has an obsession with knowledge and an underappreciation of wisdom, judgment, and experience. The fact that "senior" titles are given so freely 2-5 years into the career is a sign that knowledge, which can be crammed and accelerated unlike wisdom, is overvalued as a component of "experience".

jdougan 3y ago
Part of this is the obvious desire to use technology that is "resumé compliant" to make getting the next job easier. The other part is that "wisdom, judgment, and experience" is difficult to scale and often uncomfortable for management. Many/Most want software projects to run like their (imagined, fictional) vision of a civil engineering project or an assembly line where people are perfectly fungible. They don't want some engineer with 30 years of hard experience telling them that the project they promised for 6 months is going to take at least a year, no matter how many devs are hired.