It absolutely does. I cannot believe I am reading this on HN... Do you think the idea of a pointer changed? That you need locks when accessing variables when doing multithreading? That principles like "Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept" have changed? In fact, almost nothing changed from 2005 to now in any conceptual form.
I agree with your general point, but Postel’s law definitely isn’t as universally accepted now as in 2005. Obviously its applicability is totally context-dependent. But I would say that there’s a trend to having smaller systems which are stricter with their inputs.
And end up writing the usual garbage that takes 2 GB of RAM just for a chat application... No. Acting like those concepts disappeared just because you write Javascript instead of C makes no sense. It still does memory allocation. You still need to manage it. Thinking that the virtual machine/compiler is doing "magic" is exactly what is wrong with most code today.
Software was never coded in a big-bang one shot fashion. It evolves through years of interacting with the field. That evolution takes almost same time with AI or not. Remember a version release has many tasks that need to go at human speed.
On the contrary, this is likely the reason why we can disrupt these large players.
Experience from 2005 just don't hold that much value in 2025 in tech.