When your technical colleagues apply or pressure you to make fixes or implement features w/o understanding how abd why they work. When they discard your proposals/alternatives as inferior, motivating with their superficial knowledge arguments. When they promote new toys over tried and true ones, only because they work using other new technologies and they do stuff automatically, w/o having to think why/how, hoping it'll never fail.

And when it all starts erroring -- turn to @netikras asking to fix the tools I ruled from the beginning as "black boxes of unknown evil"

aren't they the best... :)

is there no longer place for highly technical nerds understanding all the bolts and nuts of big and small tools/systems/solutions..,?

Sounds like job security to me though

@jestdotty nah, that's a bit too harsh I think. I'm sure that neti is a respected dev.

People have to put more value on stuff that's older and thus matured and worked. Many software is purely upgraded for the sake of being modern only to add new issues and not thinking about the stuff that currently works good.

Same for Rust people towards C. Saying C is "old". Sure, but it's matured and proven. The memory issues are your own problem and is mainly dev based. They're working full time in a stable as F system written in that language they claim to be unsafe. Sure, for much things, Rust is a better choice, but it's such a weird language. Why not use C# instead then. Why to from a-lot-of-work to that weird language? So many other options exist that aren't weird. Point is, the main reason for a lot to move on and learn this TERRIBLE language being system x is old, oh no. And regarding stdlib, real devs write their own if they have the time. My c lib contains many high level features.

@jestdotty I did understand what you mean but it's just possible to be so enthousiast about some new tech that it's possible to chose the tech above someone's advise without directly not having respect for him. It's not per definition unrespectful to not go with the advise some expert gives. People just want to do what is most fun. It doesn't have to do anything with respect.

@jestdotty professionally you often also the things you find the most fun and not only the good. If you would only do what is the best option you're getting bored or burned out. One of them. Ofcourse is your fun important. Else you would be really a slave.

I have perverse joy man-splaining technical things to people at work. Sometimes I even throw in the dad voice and ask rhetorical questions. Sometimes I will even inquire if they know what some of the technical terms mean, but start explaining before they can answer. Prompting indignant responses like "I know what that means..."

I am not always a dick, just when people ignore my input then wonder why it doesn't work.