Evolve or die. I am the “old school developer” but that didn't stop me from staying up to date with technologies and trends. DIY developers are good to some poi

Evolve or die. I am the “old school developer” but that didn't stop me from staying up to date with technologies and trends. DIY developers are good to some point. You will never build anything large or build efficiently if you don't understand that not only DRY has value, but DRO as well (Don't Repeat Others' work). Nobody blames the “old school developers” for not building their own computers like probably the “very old school developers” did. Computers are taken for granted and are obvious tools of the trade. Well, today frameworks and API are that tools. As for developers not understanding of how stuff really works - they were always there. There were always people whose skills were limited to installing PHP-Nuke or osCommerce, adding some modules and changing frontend code. Don't confuse them with software developers.