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I keep seeing people lamenting something to the tune of "Hey I'm in my 40s, aren't I supposed to be expired? But I'm more relevant than ever." The idea that yo
by shrimpx 4y ago
I keep seeing people lamenting something to the tune of "Hey I'm in my 40s, aren't I supposed to be expired? But I'm more relevant than ever."
The idea that you're expired at 40 gained hold in the 90s and 00s when programmers entrenched in 80's style apps had a hard time keeping up with the explosive internet takeover of software. Waterfall development of monolithic apps with synchronous I/O and multithreading didn't carry over well to SaaS. It's also kinda like how mainframe people had a hard time with the PC revolution before that.
But if you were building LAMP websites in 2000, that experience still carries over to today.
If some idea takes over again that requires a total rethinking, like maybe differentiable programming with AI-generated infrastructure, then there'll be a bunch of 40-50 year olds who'll find it too difficult to rebuild themselves around a radically different paradigm.