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have you considered you are in a rut, and it might not be a very good one, so people with seniority call you out, while the freshman/woman you keep hiring and doctronating just reinforce your own bias?

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Yes. I often spend time self reflecting my current solutions and chosen paths to consider if I’m in a rut. This is a common topic of discuss at my office especially when evaluating the cost of technical debt: should we continue editing the old tooling in the old technology or should we invest in a larger project to migrate to a newer solution.

We use a mix of older and newer technologies. We try to identify the “best” solution where best is a function of: implementation cost (time and dollars), technical debt, learning curve, future extensibility, performance, simplicity, and personal intellectual interest.

Calling out women separately and grouping them with "freshman" is pretty messed up. No one mentioned gender and women could be part of seniority.

Pretty sure he meant "freshman or freshwoman"

Oh, didn't think of that. I hope that's the case.

Avoiding a gendered word would avoid this confusion.

Not jumping to conclusions would have been equally acceptable.

Perhaps they meant "fresh men/women"? Instead of slamming, you could ask.

I think you're misreading and the op was meaning freshman/freshwomen, shortening it to freshman/women

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