[thrower123]

No. The burnout rate is sufficient that most people in the software industry have five or fewer years of experience, and very often it's not actually five years of cumulative experience, but five years of the same year of experience, served consecutively.

This five year cycle turns up very often; that seems to be about the length of time that it takes for an idea to form, ride the hype wave, sink into the trough of disillusionment, and then be replaced by a new hot thing pushed by the next generation of fresh, idealistic programmers. Usually the new hot thing is the same basic idea as the hot thing one or two generations before the current hot thing, which always starts off bright-eyed and bushy-tailed before it runs into the wall of leaky abstractions and murderous corner-cases and the stark horror of being used in the real-world for real products. Then nearly all of the trade-offs and short-comings of the older iteration of the idea come back to haunt the new thing, and the gray-haired programmers over 35 who've seen this cycle come and go time after time have a chuckle.