This is my frustration at my current job. There's so much silliness and no one cares about avoiding it.

A less experienced dev suggested using "AI magic" to replace a URL validator. I protested, suggesting a cached fuzzy match solution (prepopulated by AI)... and no one cared. Now the AI model has been suddenly turned down, and our system is broken. We're going to have re-validate the whole system.

A younger developer who got promoted over me tried to write a doc on possible ways to fix it. He said "hey Dan, can you help me with this?" He got promoted over me because the way to get ahead is to write docs and have meetings, not do things sensibly. Now he's trying to use my work to demonstrate his leadership.

No one cares. The more I offer better solutions, the more it's a threat to less experienced developers. Things mostly work so my manager doesn't care. There's probably better ways for me to have handled things, but it's so exhausting fighting the nonsense and I just want to write good code.

> So it's not like I have nothing to share after 30 years of experience in the industry, I just have nobody to share it with.

seriously. it kills me to have so much knowledge and expertise that few people appear to care about if not downright hate me for wanting to pass it on to others as it appears institutional knowledge does not have any value these days

Are juniors you ran into psychologically obsessed by being self-reliant ? or too proud of their own ideas ?

I also believe that some of seniors experience is flesh-level resilience. I'm no smarter than when I joined the industry, I just got used to being in the trenches, how to handle my own psychology, how all the easy-looking things are not and how the horrible ones aren't either.. I could explain this in detail to any junior, but until they're on the minefield it won't mean much.

I took a job in another state in large part because one of the interviewers was a highly skilled sysadmin that I wanted to learn from (I had basically backed myself into system administration as a career at my first job, a startup, so I didn't have a lot of people to lean on to learn my trade).

Of course, he turned in his notice shortly after I arrived, because he had found his successor. So, that didn't work out so well for me.

you have HN, there is always someone here, my friend :).

Exactly my experience. You describe it more diplomatically than I do hah.

To me, young people just don't seem to know, or want to know, that information and knowledge can be gained from a person. It's the arrogance of youth x100

They have a supercomputer in their pocket/on their desk, and an AI that knows 'everything'. I can't imagine what it's like being a teacher right now.

How's your AI going to explain the office politics? The CTO's opinion on things? Talk about recent outages and learnings (details of which are not often on blogs)?

They think all they need is knowledge and facts and none of history, politics, communication etc

I think a lot of is that an AI or Google search won't challenge them, push them, disagree with them - and that's comforting to them, and more desirable than the learning that could happen

For all I know maybe you are an expert, but as a general rule of thumb - people are sick of "experts" eager to share their "expertise".

It's simply the case that the supply of "experts" wanting to share "expertise" vastly eclipses the demand by several orders of magnitude.

I think there's a business somewhere, where you get paid to listen to "experts" and they get to feel better about themselves. It's a win-win.

So if people don't perceive you as an "expert" and dont go to you for answers, you simply do not register as one or they have a rather high bar which requires observable undeniable artifacts (and I don't mean credentials, I mean software) and competition is rather fierce - there's simply overproduction of people who think they are "experts" and thus you have to give unmistakable symptoms of being one to register.