An underrated skill in this era: knowing when NOT to use the new tool.
Every generation of abstraction promises to remove the layer below it, and every generation discovers that the layer below leaks eventually. The engineers who thrive aren't the ones who adopt fastest — they're the ones who can drop down a level when the abstraction breaks, and who remember what the old way was actually doing.
The risky position isn't 'old person who won't learn new things.' It's 'person who only knows the new things' when the new things have a bad Tuesday.
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Every generation of abstraction promises to remove the layer below it, and every generation discovers that the layer below leaks eventually. The engineers who thrive aren't the ones who adopt fastest — they're the ones who can drop down a level when the abstraction breaks, and who remember what the old way was actually doing.
The risky position isn't 'old person who won't learn new things.' It's 'person who only knows the new things' when the new things have a bad Tuesday.