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The article comes to this conclusion: > After years of observing these cycles, I think it comes down to one word: employability. > Developers want to keep get

The article comes to this conclusion: > After years of observing these cycles, I think it comes down to one word: employability. > Developers want to keep getting paid for what they already know and use. We worry that today’s optional technology will become tomorrow’s job requirement. However, that's not the real reason for the "fatique" or anger from the seasoned developers. The anger stems from the fact that we've seen all of this so many times before and it seems we're unnecessarily burning cycles on something that is spinned as "innovation", but pragmatically is a distraction. This anger is further fueled by junior developers jumping directly on the new frameworks and disregarding the "old tech" as some sort of legacy.

Aeolun 2y ago
I have both now. When genuinely good tech comes around it’s extremely hard to convince leadership to use it because they’ve heard it all before. At the same time all the implementation details fly under the radar, and the mountain of dependencies keeps increasing in size.
forgetfreeman 2y ago
Related: there are few things in this world I capital H hate with a murderous rage quite so thoroughly as a smug 23 year old blithely declaring individuals who've been mastering entire tech ecosystems longer than they've been alive "don't want to learn". Correction, children: we get sick of learning bullshit subsets of things we already know merely to satisfy the current marketing cycle among technological semi-literates.
- Moru 2y ago
  This is getting so ingrained in todays society that it even spills over on non-tech. We have this provatisation craze going since a while and as soon as something don't work we expect the market to sort it by switching provider. For example now, the state has hired a taxi company to do all school transports for all kids that can't take the bus for any reason. And all other disabled transports that is the responsibility of the state. This has been working very bad since a number of reasons. The solution to this is that they rewrite the rules for the next contract round. All taxi companies gets to bid on the contract and the cheapest wins the contract. If it didn't work with the previous one, do we really think it will work with the next one that wants even less money? Hint: The workers are the same since the winning bid cannot be won by a single taxi company. There will be a big company that has no drivers and they in turn will hire all the local taxi companies to do the actual work. They will do the same mistakes of setting the incentives wrong and we will end up with non function disabled people transport. Again. It's not even the first circle coming round. It just keeps happening.
  - forgetfreeman 2y ago
    Like the man said, " If there's a new way I'll be the first in line but it better work this time."
agumonkey 2y ago
I'd add another factor: neurology. Our brain don't like to break accumulated "knowledge" to replace it. Especially if it's just to recreate a different mess without a global improvement in insight. And if this occurs too often.. it feels as breaking your leg every time your bones heals.. I don't get angry when I read a new topic, even if complicated, it's a motivating pleasure even.. but trying to reverse yet another vaguely specified build system .. not so much.

Aeolun 2y ago

I have both now. When genuinely good tech comes around it’s extremely hard to convince leadership to use it because they’ve heard it all before. At the same time all the implementation details fly under the radar, and the mountain of dependencies keeps increasing in size.

forgetfreeman 2y ago

Related: there are few things in this world I capital H hate with a murderous rage quite so thoroughly as a smug 23 year old blithely declaring individuals who've been mastering entire tech ecosystems longer than they've been alive "don't want to learn". Correction, children: we get sick of learning bullshit subsets of things we already know merely to satisfy the current marketing cycle among technological semi-literates.

Moru 2y ago
This is getting so ingrained in todays society that it even spills over on non-tech. We have this provatisation craze going since a while and as soon as something don't work we expect the market to sort it by switching provider. For example now, the state has hired a taxi company to do all school transports for all kids that can't take the bus for any reason. And all other disabled transports that is the responsibility of the state. This has been working very bad since a number of reasons. The solution to this is that they rewrite the rules for the next contract round. All taxi companies gets to bid on the contract and the cheapest wins the contract. If it didn't work with the previous one, do we really think it will work with the next one that wants even less money? Hint: The workers are the same since the winning bid cannot be won by a single taxi company. There will be a big company that has no drivers and they in turn will hire all the local taxi companies to do the actual work. They will do the same mistakes of setting the incentives wrong and we will end up with non function disabled people transport. Again. It's not even the first circle coming round. It just keeps happening.
- forgetfreeman 2y ago
  Like the man said, " If there's a new way I'll be the first in line but it better work this time."

agumonkey 2y ago

I'd add another factor: neurology. Our brain don't like to break accumulated "knowledge" to replace it. Especially if it's just to recreate a different mess without a global improvement in insight. And if this occurs too often.. it feels as breaking your leg every time your bones heals.. I don't get angry when I read a new topic, even if complicated, it's a motivating pleasure even.. but trying to reverse yet another vaguely specified build system .. not so much.