[scott01]

I’d like to challenge a core argument of the article:

> Only your last ~20 years of experience matters for these questions, because the basic landscape of software development changes so rapidly. [...]

… with an anecdote. I’ve recently skimmed through a “Thinking Forth” book, and, language-specific information apart, was surprised to read that the software structure they recommend resembles to what I’ve figured out over years of programming by intuition.

[082349872349872]

The basic landscape "changes" so rapidly because although we keep talking in circles, about the same things over and over, for some reason we give them new names each time we go around.

[scott01]

Apparently, yes. I remember reading a comment stating that with Redux, Facebook rediscovered UI optimisations of Windows 95.

[meiraleal]

Yeah he is plain wrong on that.

I started to to code 25 years ago when I was 12 years old, creating chatbots to manage RPG sessions for a IRC server. Turns out that's the most up-to-date experience I have now with the advent of LLMs.