When senior devs don't shift their learned use of abstractions as context changes, they teach junior devs to be skeptical of abstractions.
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Replying to @BrendanEich
being skeptical is a virtue, but only if it's accompanied by a search for truth.
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
senior devs need to be able to impart SOME kind of wisdom onto new devs or we're stuck in an iloop.
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
I started by explaining why people might be skeptical (the reasons skepticism is a virtue) and argued we shoul avoid those 1/
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Replying to @wycats @BrendanEich
behaviors. There will still be reasons to be skeptical but ideally not a total collapse in inter-generational knowledge 2/2
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