[mbrodersen]

I completely disagree with this. I am also a few years shy of 50 and way ahead compared with 20+ year old self-styled "ninja" developers. They simply don't know what they don't know. They truly believe that they are "experts" or "ninjas" because they have read a few tutorials on the latest soon-to-be-forgotten fashionable language/framework. Or believe that framework/language X is truly something new because a "hello world" web application is easy to write. And then a year later, when things get tough and the realise that the wonder framework/language has limitations, they jump ship to yet another shiny "silver bullet" framework/language that will save them from having to actually learn the hard stuff, allowing themselves to still believe that they are "ninjas". Meanwhile, people who actually know their stuff take over the ruins of their efforts and make it work. Rewriting it step by step to fix it.

[mbrodersen]

And how do I know this by the way? Because I have done it many many times in my career. Taking over a ruin build by "ninjas" and making it actually work and bug free in production. Meanwhile the "ninjas" have jumped ship to another company, building a new ruin with some new "better" framework/language. Until of course things get tough and they again jump ship, leaving the ruin to somebody who actually know what they are doing.