Mastodawn

I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

@liw It's fantastic that you have both the insight/wisdom of lived experience _and_ are in a secure enough position not to worry.

But the job market doesn't necessarily share your attitude and so those who have neither of these things are entirely justified in their concern.