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by devnonymous 2400 days ago
No.

Your responsibility as a seasoned programmer is not to code !

I'm a 20+ yr experience programmer and still hold the title Sr. Software Programmer and no. I say no.

Yes the stack is deep but it is unnecessarily so. Yes, there's layers and layers ...but it is your job to educate the less experienced why less is more and why there's is always a tradeoff to be made.

Computer science hasn't moved a whole lot[1] in terms of problem solving since the 80s. Computers have just become faster. The best ideas we have today are still rooted in the principles of the 80s. They are just a abstraction level higher.

So no. I refuse to accept the premise that Nothing is easy anymore.

[1] when considering fundamental theories.