An idiot in fancy dress

The most important disclaimer in this post is that I don't have any particular idiot in mind, and even the people that might come into examples sounding like idiots in the moment, surely had highs and lows, and this is just one of the lows. Ten years ago(ish) I had a meeting with another senior and our team lead, called by a more junior person to make a case for a new paradigm they saw promoted by "prominent figures in the industry" and recommend that we introduce it: functional programming.At the time I was doing FE in a Scala heavy team, and the side looks between the 3 of us, senior folks, during the pitch are something I won't forget easily.As AI gets to be more and more an expectation in software development, the main positive thing I can see is how documentation is finally becoming a first class citizen. Whilst before knowledge bases were the place where ideas went to die, MCP servers make it incredibly easy to fire up Claude and ask it to find all the info on a specific topic,…