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I am in my mid-fourties and I can tell you one thing: When you get older, your brain gets slower. And that it not helpful for writing code. There are very brigh
by jansan 8y ago
I am in my mid-fourties and I can tell you one thing: When you get older, your brain gets slower. And that it not helpful for writing code. There are very bright yong people, and they want a pice of the cake, too. Therefore, it is getting harder, and often frustrating, to keep up with all the changes, and if you do not keep up, your knowledge may be obsolete soon.
Therefore I STRONGLY recommend to focus on high salary and early retirement. This has nothing to do about not being excited about writing code and stuff until your old age. It's just that making money is not getting easier if you are an ageing programmer.
- airbreather 8y agoSpeak for yourself, I am older and find applying lessons learned creates better architecture and better overall outcomes - when I was younger furiously coding was everything, now I arrange things better and the code is only one component of the outcome of the overall system.
- muzani 8y agoI'm a way better programmer than I used to be 10 years ago. In fact, it's a career choice that seems to age well. A lot of the "programming" skill set is technique, avoiding mistakes, knowing what things to do. These all improve in time. You don't even have to think faster; things like loops, algorithms, and testing mostly remain the same across languages, but are already burned into your brain as muscle memory.