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Time stops for no one, as they say, and one day you will find yourself older than you ever thought possible. Undoubtedly this has been the case for me, and somehow I am now in my early 50’s, having programmed professionally for over 25 years. Thus I have some degree of insight into the passage of time from the perspective of a developer. This post will be a heads up on some of the changes that a younger developer may expect to experience throughout their career, using my own experiences as a guide.
Without some grounding, exploring the future can be a fraught process. For example, before entering university, I remember an acquaintance explaining how programming was a dead end because computers would be coding themselves within a few years. It is only now, some decades later, that the likes of GitHub Copilot raises this possibility. Your peers may not be the best source for future planning. Yet judging on Hacker News clearly, people of all ages still seek such answers [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ].