Never played, but it seems to me that this shares the same problem with Holodecks, from Star Trek, which is why would anyone ever want to leave?

Author seems to be blaming the hammer for the house not getting built right. Software is increasing in complexity, and perhaps is outpacing testing.

The hammer is Homer Simpson's automated hammer, and it has two claw sides like PHP.

This article misses the point of frameworks like Angular. Its never been about whether a framework is qualitatively better that vanilla or some other framework. The issue is when your codebase and your team reach a certain size you need the baseline, predictability and the guard rails that a framework provides. Otherwise you risk your project spiraling into chaos.

All projects spiral into chaos unless there's a person or more who try to reduce the growth of entropy, all the time, framework or not.

And these days, LLM agent will just re-use existing patterns if prompted correctly, regardless of who in the team is using it or whether or not there's a public well known framework in place or not. So consistency should not really be an issue anymore even in a team.

Some companies ate the cost of the tariffs. The whole thing is a mess.

"You are not going to convince anyone with facts." ... Lost me here. What kind of organization doesn't run on facts?

Most?

We need some kind of screening for these high-stress PTSD inducing roles ... a Voight-Kampff test. Or limit the number of years one can be in these roles.

New Acela trains represent a significant step toward national aspirations for faster and more reliable train service

I work for a large company, and I can say that context switching is also a problem here. I guess it comes down to the organization, or maybe the individual team. But yeah, there isn't a week that goes by where a development task isn't interrupted by something.

>more willing to do the boring work that the older devs don't want to do

No body wants to do the boring work. I think more experienced devs realize that a boring assignment isn't personal, its just business.

I think you're right. I also think that what tends to bore an experienced dev may be less likely to bore a junior dev, just because it's newer to them.

typing fast has nothing to do with programming

debugging errors has a lot to do with programming

typos are a kind of bug

When I was 10, I started programming in BASIC ... we're talking about simple expressions and statements.

"When I was 10, I started programming in BASIC"

Me, too! On the Acorn Electron.

My son will turn 6 soon. I think he's ready for Scratch (or at least Scratch Jr) but I'm not sure he's ready for BASIC. I guess I could him a printout of some code and see if he can type it in without errors...