I'm 59 you young whippersnapper, and one thing I've learned in all those extra months is that my inelastic brain has some useful ruts carved in it, such that I

I'm 59 you young whippersnapper, and one thing I've learned in all those extra months is that my inelastic brain has some useful ruts carved in it, such that I can bang out much code in a fraction of the time that I used to, just because I've done so many similar things before and have grown my toolkit. And it's lower stress/effort work at the same time, almost on autopilot for swaths of it. Maybe I'm at a disadvantage to a young dev in some greenfield on a fresh stack. But I've been in a lot of greenfields and fresh stacks too, and the patterns repeat. That said someday my utility will drop below my cost. I may not _want_ to notice, but my compiler will tell me. I can't lie to the compiler. When my brain can't build any more my commits won't build anymore, it isn't very subtle.