While we're ranting don't forget developers in the 80's didn't sit in a noisy open space! This was totally me ~15 years ago in a Scrum place with an open floor

While we're ranting don't forget developers in the 80's didn't sit in a noisy open space! This was totally me ~15 years ago in a Scrum place with an open floor plan, doing most of my work after everyone left in the evening or on holidays because it was quiet and I could finally get some stuff done. I wrote big pieces of the product by myself. My first C compiler was on a VAX. I did have some C compiler for my ZX Spectrum at some much later point but I don't remember doing much with it. Then a series of compilers for PCs. One random memory is some sort of REPL C, maybe Interactive-C or something? But pretty quickly it was Microsoft and Borland. EDIT: On a more serious note re: meetings and such. Part of the difference is that working in much larger teams and projects becomes less efficient and requires more communication. Mature projects also require less of the builder thing and more of the maintainer thing. Software lasts a long time and inevitably maintenance becomes the work most people end up doing.