What I found is that my willingness to communicate and share my expertise is usually not in demand with more junior developers. In general, I find developers uninterested in finding a mentor. They don't look at your linked in profile, they don't look at you as a possible source of knowledge and expertise.

So it's not like I have nothing to share after 30 years of experience in the industry, I just have nobody to share it with.

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asdfman123 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is my frustration at my current job. There's so much silliness and no one cares about avoiding it.

A less experienced dev suggested using "AI magic" to replace a URL validator. I protested, suggesting a cached fuzzy match solution (prepopulated by AI)... and no one cared. Now the AI model has been suddenly turned down, and our system is broken. We're going to have re-validate the whole system.

A younger developer who got promoted over me tried to write a doc on possible ways to fix it. He said "hey Dan, can you help me with this?" He got promoted over me because the way to get ahead is to write docs and have meetings, not do things sensibly. Now he's trying to use my work to demonstrate his leadership.

No one cares. The more I offer better solutions, the more it's a threat to less experienced developers. Things mostly work so my manager doesn't care. There's probably better ways for me to have handled things, but it's so exhausting fighting the nonsense and I just want to write good code.

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gib444 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Exactly my experience. You describe it more diplomatically than I do hah.

To me, young people just don't seem to know, or want to know, that information and knowledge can be gained from a person. It's the arrogance of youth x100

They have a supercomputer in their pocket/on their desk, and an AI that knows 'everything'. I can't imagine what it's like being a teacher right now.

How's your AI going to explain the office politics? The CTO's opinion on things? Talk about recent outages and learnings (details of which are not often on blogs)?

They think all they need is knowledge and facts and none of history, politics, communication etc

I think a lot of is that an AI or Google search won't challenge them, push them, disagree with them - and that's comforting to them, and more desirable than the learning that could happen

	▲	asdfman123 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I like to play an online strategy game, openfront.io. The way to win is to take out someone who is gaining power before they get too powerful. It's just basic game theory, and you see it everywhere. However, it's so annoying in the workplace when your two options seem to come down to try to dominate or be dominated. Especially if you care about quality code and don't care for meetings. As far as I'm concerned, I think I have to make peace with the fact that if I don't play the game, I am going to be managed by people who don't know what they're doing. But neither option seems particularly good. Should I try to bury my ego and influence from below? Should I work harder and try to climb the corporate ladder? I'm still not sure.
	▲	dyauspitr 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don’t think it’s the arrogance of youth. It’s just that this generation and honestly a big cohort of millennials are not used to gleaning information from people. A stunning number of people have been raised/educated solely by the internet. That’s the source for knowledge, not other people.