I am also in the field, and IMHO we are starting to get away from the worst excesses code quality wise i.e. things are getting better. 6 years ago using CVS or

I am also in the field, and IMHO we are starting to get away from the worst excesses code quality wise i.e. things are getting better. 6 years ago using CVS or something like that was novel. Now not using GIT is. Big improvement! Problems are still interesting and challenging.