And even in big corps, 95% of all IT is usually plumbing and hectically applying band-aids for past issues that should not have been there in the first place.

And even in big corps, 95% of all IT is usually plumbing and hectically applying band-aids for past issues that should not have been there in the first place. To me, the fact that IT is currently seen as rapidly progressing is laughable. It is rapidly changing, true, but for the most part we're solving old problems with new tools that work only marginally better than the old tools (because, like the article says, the underlying mentality is the same). Very often they change fast enough to keep everyone always "learning" at the expense of the users, so the marginal benefits are cancelled out. (Seriously, I know people who made the same excuse for bad quality for the last decade. "Oh, I'm just learning [over-hyped tool]. Everyone makes mistakes at first." Learning tools is a fake kind of learning. Real advances happen when your conceptual basis is improved, so you get better at doing something with whatever tool. That's real learning. ) --- Also, sometimes we're using new tools that work significantly worse than some old tools.... because at some point conceptual development branched and "our" branch is at the same level of development as another branch was in, say, 60s or 70s. Sometimes I read about old tech and it just blows my mind. "What? They've been doing this three decades ago? How come this is marketed as awesome new thing right now?"