[mancerayder]

Yes, BUT:

Grey-haired Linux folks who've hammered on complex, changing, sometimes esoteric systems in different companies with unique challenges COMBINED with having to have learned a programming language, to view these people as obsolete is an ultimate folly of youth here in IT.

To suggest that it's all different now, your Shell/Perl/Webserver/database/caching/networking experience somehow has nothing on Python/Terraform/AWS/Docker really shows inexperience of hiring managers.

I learned both, and I can tell you AWS+someyaml+Python are MUCH easier than any of the stuff I listed above. Yet, there's a new generation of hiring managers that believes otherwise.

Today at work I had to explain absolutely basic DNS to someone. I dunno, call me skeptical about this new paradigm business. The paradigms look awfully familiar.