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yes, and tomorrow you'll be extolling the virtues of software development where every new project is unique and you learn something new from it, yet somehow this senior person you disagree with just had 30 years of the same experience.

This sort of argument is silly and dismissive.

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Will I, especially since I'm actually the engineer with 30 years of experience?

Jumping from new hotness to new hotness isn't a means to achieving real experience, it's often a quick way to 10 of the same one year since you never gain depth of understanding by flitting from one thing to the next.

Nowhere did I claim that you must have new projects/tools/stacks/toys/whatever to gain real experience.

THAT is a strawman.

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