RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831
This defeatism is horrifying.
Of course there will be Junior engineers, because senior software engineers (me included) are not really able to understand the new paradigms of software that are being unleashed (for better or worse) upon us. We are the assembly punchcard engineers when the kids are growing up with a personal computer and BASIC (or maybe with access to a pdp11 and a vt100). Of course they don’t know anything, but they’re also able to iterate on their software 100s of times a day, something that was surely inconceivable for a professional programmer in the 70ies.
It’s in our hands to nurture, grow, pass on our knowledge _and_ just as importantly, learn from them and their youthful sillyputty malleable brains. This nihilism is helping nobody, and it’s certainly not helping juniors.
We (meaning senior engineers) have the privilege of knowledge and a career, and it is our duty to pass on what we know and provide the support to the upcoming generation. It is also on us to be humble enough to acknowledge that we are having trouble coping with changing realities.
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