"This is one of the biggest concerns I have as an aging developer." As an aside, it is interesting how we sample a demographic at a point in time and then thin

"This is one of the biggest concerns I have as an aging developer." As an aside, it is interesting how we sample a demographic at a point in time and then think that's the perpetual state. For instance when I was a teen, gaming was dominated by my age group. Being an adult that gamed was rare. As I aged the average age of gamers moved up with me. Now I drop in a game of pubg and almost everyone is late 20s to 40s. The same thing has happened in software development. I was in a massive wave of the expansion of software development as a career, and at the time it was seen as a young person's game (and was naturally dominated by the very young being a new field largely with new positions). As the years passed the average age inexplicably moved higher. It trends down somewhat as new generations joined in, but being a developer in your 40s was incredibly rare 20 years ago. Now it's incredibly common. But some of the stereotypes in both still hang around. In the same way that we chuckle about "old people" not understanding technology (e.g. "VCR blinking 12:00"), because many grew up before technology was so prevalent. But now I would make no premature assumptions about the knowledge or capabilities of a 50 year old or a 25 year old.