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You're not talking about this, but I actually said the same thing about the state of software engineering a few weeks ago. So many fields are facing an existential crisis.

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Not the fields - the establishment in these fields.

Practically speaking, what's the difference?

Plank’s principle - „Science progresses one funeral at a time”. That’s how it always was - the old guard often times resists the new ideas.

This is true of research. I rather worry of people's livelihoods, establishment or not.

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