Comment by kris-s

In absolute terms the number of people with deep knowledge here is probably higher than it’s ever been. The ratio has changed, which is what I think he’s actually lamenting here. He mentions civil engineering; one thing I find myself often bringing up is that software engineering is a brand new discipline. The operating domain of softare is immense, maybe infinite. So I’m less curmudgeonly than Jon is here, we’ve got a barely century or so of software experience as a species, there’s gonna be slop.