Today's 50+ developers are the most important resource in tech. If you are in that age group and still have active, up-to-date skills, then the chances are you

Today's 50+ developers are the most important resource in tech. If you are in that age group and still have active, up-to-date skills, then the chances are you are someone who: * still remember how computers work at a fundamental level * is not afraid to tinker * has better judgement * who knows that behind all the shiny interfaces is some text in a file some other human had to put together under various constraints you might also have experienced, so you are not surprised or dismayed when things don't go right: You keep hacking at the problem until it yields I am not sure about the if the 50+ developers 20 years from now will be able to remember that humans are supposed to use computers as tools and not vice versa.