It’s especially egregious in IT. I think Uncle Bob had some statistics about how many new people are introduced to the field all the time and how that effectively dilutes wisdom and experience and there is a real challenge to try to train those people in useful ways.
The problem, in practice, is that pretty much the clock starts at about age 25 where people start thinking you are “too old” to do IT and it ratchets up every year to try to push you out.
The net effect is as you say - lots of eager beavers wanting to try something new and shiny but not too much wisdom and experience left (or if they are, they are mostly sidelined).
So then you get lots of stupid rookie shit going on, nearly constantly. People that probably never even heard of Mythical Man-Month (and if they did, probably think it’s not worth reading because, well, what would someone that came before even know about this industry) chomping at the bit to get a second-system effect going on working system(s) (rewrite it in Rust), for example.
We all got to see this at the national level where you saw fElon’s boys making proclamations about rewriting COBOL systems refined over the course of decades into Java in mere months. Because “AI”. That’s of course sheer fucking lunacy, but the industry is known for give adulation to bold bullshit proclamations like this.
It’s especially egregious in IT. I think Uncle Bob had some statistics about how many new people are introduced to the field all the time and how that effectively dilutes wisdom and experience and there is a real challenge to try to train those people in useful ways.
The problem, in practice, is that pretty much the clock starts at about age 25 where people start thinking you are “too old” to do IT and it ratchets up every year to try to push you out.
The net effect is as you say - lots of eager beavers wanting to try something new and shiny but not too much wisdom and experience left (or if they are, they are mostly sidelined).
So then you get lots of stupid rookie shit going on, nearly constantly. People that probably never even heard of Mythical Man-Month (and if they did, probably think it’s not worth reading because, well, what would someone that came before even know about this industry) chomping at the bit to get a second-system effect going on working system(s) (rewrite it in Rust), for example.
We all got to see this at the national level where you saw fElon’s boys making proclamations about rewriting COBOL systems refined over the course of decades into Java in mere months. Because “AI”. That’s of course sheer fucking lunacy, but the industry is known for give adulation to bold bullshit proclamations like this.