I think a lot of this is more lack of exposure rather thanan intentional denial. The ageism that happens in technology is hard for younger people to recognize a

I think a lot of this is more lack of exposure rather thanan intentional denial. The ageism that happens in technology is hard for younger people to recognize and acknowledge because they don't have first hand experience with it, and stories online only go so far since it's hard to verify. This, combined with the fact that there is a strong sense of meritocray when it comes to technology, and I think people just naturally assume that your work always speaks for itself. This is one of those things where more visibility and discussion will eventually help, it's just right now there's a large social aspect that needs to be dealt with first. Personally, I'm very familiar with the difficulties older coders face as one of my colleagues at my last job battled it pretty much daily, and even when he took over as lead programmer for our small university, the management and even his underlings really didn't want to listen to him much either. But he was stuck - like a lot of people at the University, he wanted to leave because things were getting bad across the board (management issues resulting in enrollment loss, which means less money), but he was 50+. Since we were in the Seattle Area, this meant the only tech hiring was Amazon and other Seattle based start ups, none of which wanted a 50+ year old man, even if he could hack and plan with the best of them. It's experiences like this that I think help shape people's perspective. A more personal experience, seeing it actually affect someone in exactly the way they described it. It would be great if we could just accept that sometimes people's biases do influence their judgement, but sometimes it requires a more impactful approach.