Remember some of the hot-button issues in tech over the last decade? People angry over the use of the word "passion". The merits of "craftsmanship". Whether the "10x developer" is a myth.
Something connects all of these debates, and nobody's really talking about it. That's why I wrote this essay: https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2023-07-12-the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer/
@searls "Nor do I know whether anyone will coin a term to dismiss my generation"
Mostly we're Gen-X. Nobody's gonna even remember we exist.
@searls Interestingly, because the generational shift you point out lines up very roughly with Gen-X vs Millennials, *one* difference is going to be just how many *more* of them there are than us.
Gen-X, which happens to be the enthusiast programmer generation, was tiny compared to the Boomers *or* the Millennials.
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