Software engineering's a discipline with a tenuous grasp of its own history. Imagine someone at a physics conference in 2025 presenting a paper on something they've just discovered that they're calling "The Falling Force"...
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I remember @venkats.bsky.social giving a keynote at No Fluff SLC describing that very phenomenon, the next generation rediscovering foundational tenets of software.
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New ideas are forbidden...we all seem to hate each other once we're anonymous reviewers.