I realised earlier this year that bet-the-company decisions on technology and process are, at this very moment, being made by people for whom the Agile Manifesto was signed when they were in primary school.

People for whom MySQL is relational databases.

And so on.

I mean, numerically speaking, I have only been paying attention for a minority of the history of this industry. But if you read stuff from the 90s, it refers to stuff from the 80s and 70s and so on down the line until you get into deep ur-software engineering.

But then the internet came along and nobody has time for books any more. Even blog posts are tl;dr these days, everyone sort of scrapes together their craft from twitter and HN comments.

It's like someone took decades of accumulated wisdom and hit a giant red button somewhere that overwrote that collective knowledge with random 1s and 0s.

Of course ... similar rants were being written in the 80s ...