Comment by woooooo
6 days ago
The 80s and 90s devs who built our current software infra were, on average, FAR less credentialed than today's juniors and mids who mostly don't understand what they're building on.
6 days ago
The 80s and 90s devs who built our current software infra were, on average, FAR less credentialed than today's juniors and mids who mostly don't understand what they're building on.
Sure, and Da Vinci didn't have an architectural degree when he was designing bridges, but now you need a proper license to do so. Society learns to do better
The difference is we didn’t know any better back then. We do now.
Surprisingly, 80's and 90's developers were quite skilled low-level developers who knew very well all the ways things could go wrong. The difference was the stakes were not high then. The blast radius was maybe a hundred thousand people and the worst was they lost their own files. Now some AI-controlled process or apparatus could ruin everyone's credit and maybe even kill you and all your neighbors.
The whole comparison is apples to oranges. Products are massive nowadays and a whole lot more connected.