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I have been brought in, as an independent contractor, at the tail end of enough projects to "salvage" them to have a somewhat cynical point of view on this.

In all of the worst cases the projects probably had no one over 25 working on them.

I'd figure eventually enough money will have been lost on such failed projects for tech companies to change their minds on this.

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As long as the industry keeps growing quickly, we'll keep seeing teams that consist entirely of inexperienced youth.

I think the only thing that distinguishes now from previous periods in the software industry is that there is less of a engineering-driven culture in the companies - product and sales more frequently take a leading role, and the technology used is cheap and accessible enough that bad developers can still make a go of it, get the business through launch and into profitability(albeit with catastrophic bugs, no security, no backups, etc.).

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