I would love to be continue doing programming for the remainder of life. It's a lovely activity. But it is a young man's game, as the essay says. Sometimes you

I would love to be continue doing programming for the remainder of life. It's a lovely activity. But it is a young man's game, as the essay says. Sometimes you can just look around and the answer is staring you in the face everywhere you turn. It's not just "ageism" in tech that makes it skew young. Young programmers have more capacity for long, deep coding sessions, yes, but also for the long, tedious marches through APIs and stack traces and documentation and standard libraries, carefully orchestrated rollback procedures, all-nighters, pager-duties, etc... the "mundane" stuff, but also the "fun" stuff like designing new languages, green field projects, learning new tech stacks, etc... Of course there are exceptions, but in the case, the exceptions prove the rule. I see a time when I'm happily puttering around as a hobbyist programmer.