Do you believe a 50 year old software engineer is mentally no longer able to work? Should they be forced to sit back and tell stories of the good old days beca

Do you believe a 50 year old software engineer is mentally no longer able to work? Should they be forced to sit back and tell stories of the good old days because their knees are blown out? Do you believe that one of the greatest living programmers is so washed up at 50 that _even with the greatest LLM tools_ cannot ship something publicly in four years to back up his claims?