I love your rants @Northern_Loki. A sane voice in the hive mind.
Have to admit, my emotional response did in fact throw the baby out with the bathwater - modular does not mean agile. My bad. But that is the context I see all day long.
Our firmware team is still holding on to good values: logic, linear algebra, and combinatorial algorithms, amen. But they are getting displaced. Our front-end guys got the boot just over a year ago…
Latest victim was our inventory management that went from a boringly stable DOS-based system to Oracle. 14 months, and still worse than doing it in excel. Modular though. And agile AF.
You wouldnt know beer is good at all. Maybe one day you would go to a bar, get shitfaced on vodka-redbulls, wake up with a hangover and say “man, booze sucks, I’m never drinking anything but cool-aid again”…
Our firmware guys are the vodka-redbull-all-night types. Its gonna be a sad day when they all retire. And that day is looming closer and closer.