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What scares me a lot is that, I believe, many companies will see inexperience as an asset. Good experiences engineers know things, and sometimes/often that's kind of inconvenient for business/product types, whose conceit is that they think their idea is great and that it ought to be simple & dev "resources" should just do it. Sharing power is less fun than being the boss, than the uninformed feeling in charge.

The MBA'ification of various sectors keeps resulting in disaster & decline, but empowering craftspeople & laborers to do good seems to remain deeply unpopular by most businesses.

Whether businesses care enough to share ownership with the dev "resources" is a somewhat scary ongoing balance. It's sick to say, but to me it's unclear what concerted forces will help maintain experience & knowledge as a useful thing, amid a hyper-capitalism running amock. I hope my fears here are deeply unjustified.




Experience can be shackles too. Most "senior" guys I know are just too stuck in their old ways to adapt well going forward.




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