On Coding, Ego and Attention
I get and agree with what the author is saying here, but I also think a big part of this is that in software engineering, so much of what we do is ephemeral. If you're a carpenter you'll know if you're good or not. You'll be able to do stuff like frame a house, replace a door, etc. And then when someone asks you how long it will take to frame a house, how much it will cost, what supplies/staff you need and so on, you'll be able to say.We've been doing CRUD in our industry for decades. How can we not just say "this is how you do CRUD, we're done w/ that now". We've been doing data serialization for decades now. How can we not just say "this is how you serialize"?There are communities where this is the case. Why have we abandoned them? Why have we abandoned that knowledge and experience to reimplement things in language X or using platform Y?We might not like to hear it, but my guess is it's a culture problem. They say the way to get ahead at Google is to build a new successful product. Is that the same thing we're doing? It's easier to get ahead by building a new Z framework than to become a core committer on X framework from 10 years ago? Are most X frameworks run by toxic communities? Is there something specific about software that means tenured projects become less and less useful/maintainable/understandable over time?There's something in here that's specific to SWE. I don't know exactly what it is but, I think we should figure it out.