[michaelteter]

There have been many Silver Bullets in software development, and they probably all had some real value. But it seems they get latched onto and over-hyped, particularly for decision makers and funders.

In reality, what is probably most missing is consistent effort toward better organization and complexity management of problems (leading to effective solutions).

Without naming current 2-letter hype trains, we're doing it again after the blockchain stuff finally fizzled. Blockchain didn't magically solve our organizational and complexity problems, and so we need a new great hope.

New tech and patterns are exciting (probably mostly because of the promise of making our lives easier), but eventually one stops accepting them with big expectations. Ultimately it seems like instead of addressing the real difficulty in our technical solution development we create new distractions and use them to hide ourselves from the bigger problem that we can't seem to deal with.