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Overconfidence about the big questions in software engineering

If you instead job hop every two or three years, you’ll see how things are done at a lot more companies (~8-10), but you won’t have enough depth to be confident on whether a decision had good or bad consequences in the long term. Take Dan Luu’s deep-dive into the research around whether statically typed languages deliver better software - there’s definitely not the kind of academic consensus here you’d need to feel confident on the issue. Most of us aren’t really arguing about the content, we’re regressing to our junior selves: tearing our hair out trying to trace the “click a button to switch tabs” logic across eight different files, or figuring out why the Docker networking setup is broken again.

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