On one hand, you have self-absorbed assholes like this one (check out the titles of his "Wednesday Wisdom" posts on that same substack) and on the other hand, y

On one hand, you have self-absorbed assholes like this one (check out the titles of his "Wednesday Wisdom" posts on that same substack) and on the other hand, you have Big Tech shifting the platforms to intentionally cause their older engineers to fall behind (to circumvent EEOP, which is decades behind the curve) allowing those mature workers to be easily replaced with new brains that are perceived to be "better". Oh and speaking of brains, then comes the AI copilot (which they seem to be reigning in, despite lying through their teeth about doing so, though it's probably due to resource limitations than any desire to save jobs). Software developers should be paid like athletes, but instead the employers are going into public schools and [I Kid You Not] even into homeless shelters looking for anyone they can teach to learn how to "code" to keep feeding their insatiable appetite to exploit the fuck out of their fellow human beings. In other words: If you have the MIPS and RAM, why pay for a top software engineer to do things efficiently when you can simply hire a way cheaper kid, point them at something like SwiftUI and achieve the same business goal? The problem is, you can't just fire the software engineer if they're over a certain age without showing they're unable to keep up, which you do by shifting the rules of the operating platform. The strategy fails only when the MIPS and RAM become limitations (or when the EEOP enforcement agencies around the Country figure out what's been going on since the microcomputer vendors took control away from the established mainframe and minicomputer vendors during the late 1980s and initiate legislative and/or regulatory changes).