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Discussion on: I Regret Being a Hipster in Tech

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I had a similar conversation with my work colleagues the other day and in a way it reminds me of what you are saying.

I think that wanting to use the latest technology is also driven by the community. I mean when you look for new opportunities or read success stories, you tend to think that the newest is the best and the old is the worst without checking what problem the new solves, and this is the fault of the developers but also of the companies, who adopt the new technology just for the sake of the trendy thing.

I think the industry put a lot of effort into praising people who are into the trendy technologies, but much less into people who had a lot of experience in maintaining a great legacy technology, the trend now is to change jobs every 2 years or so, but people who maintain a product for several years has a value that a person who is jumping every 2 years MAYBE not.

The point I'm trying to make is that maybe being a hipster in tech is not just your fault, we as an industry have a small part of the blame too.