When I started coding the pay wasn't anything like it is now. It attracted nerdy, detail oriented people who wanted everything to work perfectly. Over time, I saw this desire to make things work well sort of fade away into lots of product management with schedules allowing for problems. When I saw the Crowdstrike failure recently attributed to a failure to test everything, it just made me happy I wasn't part of that kind of work any more. It would have probably physically pained me to go through that. I wish AI was being used to test code rather than write it. And testing is really much more than writing more code that tests code. The industry might actually improve if there wasn't so much hype and money involved, and, speaking to the point of this article - make use of seasoned programmers.