> I'll end with an advice to (new?) programmers: don't let fear (of being replaced) choose your skills and tools for you. I'm more concerned about propagation

> I'll end with an advice to (new?) programmers: don't let fear (of being replaced) choose your skills and tools for you. I'm more concerned about propagation of bad ideas. The current job market and VC climate has given extremely junior engineers a voice grossly disproportionate to their skill, wisdom, or experience. In a more healthy job market, those engineers would be hired into junior positions apprenticed to senior engineers. In the current job market, inexperienced engineers are given carte blanche, and this shifts the industry. Not all shifts are a net positive. It was with great dismay that I observed the rise of the Rails community, and I find it exceedingly disturbing to see their anti-intellectual, anti-experience, anti-computer-science approaches extending outside their initial realm of influence.