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by yummybear 496 days ago
Do you think you, or anyone, have the capacity to understand changes you are making to a system developed over decades, that manages trillions and affects real lives, with only a few days worth of experience with the system?
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I never made that claim, I only say the raw age is irrelevant and distracts from the real headline. Experience with those specific systems is a separate category. e.g. a 25 year old with 8 years of finance systems programming might be more qualified than a 50 year old with 3 years in that domain, it all depends on their background. The more important headline is that it's an illegal coup.
> a 25 year old with 8 years of finance systems programming

Show me one.

Hang out in some quant shops you'll see a bunch.
You don't think they grabbed one or two of the existing coders that know the system? (I have no idea)
The article explicitly mentions how the system's normal maintainers are in a panic because this kid 'Fred' they have no info about (not even a last name) has unlimited access to change things.
No, I don't think so.

I think it's the dumbest, high confidence kids(with big egos) in the room who agree to do shit like this.

PR submitted, comments by concerned coders with years experience in the system overruled and force merged with message "wcgw".