Once upon a time, it was fashionable in programming discourse for people to parade their skillful opinions about things they never really understood. And it still is.
During a hype rush, sell memes.
> 7200 years ago the Neolithic revolution was still in full swing
Older folks at Göbekli Tepe grumbled that climate change wasn't real. As far as they were concerned, the Sumer and Indus Valley kids were playing with fire and didn't know squat. The older generation just couldn't understand the crazy architecture over in Egypt and the slangy "new wave" movement at Salisbury Plain. It always seemed that the shiftless youth there just loitered and smoked and invented new expressions to frustrate communication. And everyone could agree that no one liked their so-called music!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.2-kiloyear_event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
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> as if solving business problems just became too boring
And yet, having customers and listening to them is the whole point.
Anything that re-ignites a person's zest for thinking and creating is a net gain.
That said, it is paradoxical that the catalyst in this case is a technology that replaces thinking.
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