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> as an industry we're uncomfortable with experience, seniority and progression. We're collectively suspicious of it. We want to codify and clarify it, endlessly.

Are we wrong to? We've all had the experience of being held back by poor decisions from a senior person who simply didn't have the skill. I watched a 200-person company full of smart people single-handedly destroyed by a "software architect" who just made a lot of, frankly, stupid choices that all of the freshly-graduated engineers could see were stupid.

Frankly I've found the vast majority of "experienced engineers" aren't actually any better at their jobs than fresh grads. There should be very high, objective standards before we allow one person to overrule the rest of the organisation.