It’s so good! I do give white out the side-eye now whenever I see a bottle in the wild though.

Experienced programmers DO NOT "cost more" when you factor in the time wasted by not having their expertise in play.
9/9

There are simply no experienced people around to help, and if there are, their input is often denigrated as "outdated". It's the blind leading the blind.

This systematic removal of experience from the workplace is not cost-effective, but here we are.
8/9

Programmers are also largely self-taught—a combination of the failure of our educational system (which favors PhDs over industry experience when hiring) and the ageism that infuses the profession.
7/9

Blacksmiths are often self-taught and often work alone—there are very few blacksmithing apprenticeships. There are no meetups (we used to call those "guilds").
6/9

How many programmers spend time reading code to learn from it? I often see something that makes me think, "We tried that about 10 years ago—didn't work out very well." (Server-side JavaScript comes to mind immediately 😄.)

Interestingly, there are other similarities.
5/9

They think they're great with no objective evaluation of that opinion.

I see the same thing going on all the time in software construction—the same tired mistakes made over and over again by arrogant practitioners who can't be bothered to read up on their craft.
4/9

Every season, they make Canister Damascus (Google it) with white out—something that elicits audible groans from the judges literally every time, and pretty much always leads to disaster. Arrogance is a big part of it, of course. Many of the losers puff themselves up in their intro bios.
3/9

They go on the show with not even the basic prep of watching a season or two in advance and following the judges' advice.
2/9