> As more and more dev's go grey the problem will resolve itself. The problem with that is the rate at which young devs leave the industry before they turn gr

> As more and more dev's go grey the problem will resolve itself. The problem with that is the rate at which young devs leave the industry before they turn grey. Some go into management, some go into business for themselves, some burn out completely, but I'm betting most won't be able to compete at the higher levels and will get squeezed out. As those devs at the bottom age up and are expected to move up into more technically complicated senior roles, they'll find themselves overqualified for the roles they've gotten good at (building product features using framework X) and underqualified for the more technically complicated roles (designing compression algorithms, for example).