> in terms of processes, design principles, work-life balance, compensation.
Architecture and design is a little bit more defined now, and there's a long history of what works and what doesn't, if you have enough experience to look for it. The actual SDLC and workflows are a joke today, everyone just pays them lip service and most don't even understand why they do them at all. We struggle more today with local dev environments because they've become over complicated. Adjusted for inflation we are making $50K-$100K less today than we did in 1998. We still have devs who don't want to know about how their app runs in production, leading to the same bugs and inability to troubleshoot. Apps are getting larger and larger with more teams that don't understand how it all works.
There's a lot more software out there today, and a lot more information (much of it not good quality) so there is more that can be done easily, but it needs to be managed properly and people struggle with that. Security is, amazingly, probably as bad as it used to be, just the attacks have changed.
There doesn't seem to be real training for the neophytes and they're getting worse and worse at understanding the basics. You can be called a software developer today by only knowing JavaScript, which would have been crazy back then. But now that I say that, perhaps it's comparable to PHP back then.
Architecture and design is a little bit more defined now, and there's a long history of what works and what doesn't, if you have enough experience to look for it. The actual SDLC and workflows are a joke today, everyone just pays them lip service and most don't even understand why they do them at all. We struggle more today with local dev environments because they've become over complicated. Adjusted for inflation we are making $50K-$100K less today than we did in 1998. We still have devs who don't want to know about how their app runs in production, leading to the same bugs and inability to troubleshoot. Apps are getting larger and larger with more teams that don't understand how it all works.
There's a lot more software out there today, and a lot more information (much of it not good quality) so there is more that can be done easily, but it needs to be managed properly and people struggle with that. Security is, amazingly, probably as bad as it used to be, just the attacks have changed.
There doesn't seem to be real training for the neophytes and they're getting worse and worse at understanding the basics. You can be called a software developer today by only knowing JavaScript, which would have been crazy back then. But now that I say that, perhaps it's comparable to PHP back then.