[zamalek]

Indeed. The cheapness comes from inexperience, though. These fresh graduates have also not learned the dangers of overworking themselves (both to themselves and their employers), so everyone is very willing to continue this grand delusion.

[jonesb6]

As someone who developed a mild anxiety disorder after ~6-8 months of starting work as a SWE, this hits home pretty hard. Luckily I've been able to overcome with help from my family, friends, and coworkers, but whenever I try to warn others I fear I come off only as a doomsayer and immediately bounce off the "That won't happen to me" shield.

[lallysingh]

Seriously. If you bet on one company with a dozen kids writing in whatever framework has the most blog posts this week, vs three seasoned lispers, I'm betting on the lispers every time.

With experience, you also learn better ways to express your intent in the languages and frameworks you know well. Inexperienced, high energy devs will just be fast at writing boilerplate.

[brightsize]

With experience, you learn how to be able to spot the latest fads that will likely be waning or gone in a few years once they're no longer shiny things. This can make you very unpopular with those people who take it for granted that shiny things and new things are almost certainly better than non-shiny, non-new things.

Remember when MongoDB, for example, was widely assumed (by the inexperienced, mostly) to be the obvious data storage tech for building virtually any web-facing application? Now, after wide experience with formerly-shiny Mongo, it's viewed as just one among many alternatives for reaching "web scale".