As we enter a more mature phase of the internet’s progress, it may be time for us to reconsider our strong bias toward the new. Maintainability and reliability are increasingly the edges needed to serve internet users accustomed to highly-reliable systems. New approaches to programming will still have their place, but they are entering a more crowded market where they really have to prove their value in order to be received.
We need to have a conversation about working with people of different experience and talent levels. We need to address our industry’s lust for shiny (i.e. young) over reliable. For in the process of that conversation, I believe that we will begin to address the odd inequities that plague our industry.
Wow.
And there exactly is a perfect example of the bias that older engineers complain about.
By using the same argument for older technologies and older engineers he conflates the two, implying that older engineers are really better off working on older tech.