If every single person with that coding experience only coded, that's likely, but not every person who got their start that way focused on coding to the exclusion of everything else. There are at least a couple of us who are more oriented towards teaching, archiving, and knowledge preservation. Right now, people like us but don't tend to prioritize giving us their resources. Once those greybeards are in their 60s/70s/80s and looking at their work being lost forever, I imagine that will change. (Much in the same way that there's way more discussion now in tech spaces about raising kids now that more programmers are old enough to confront that issue).
That knowledge will likely be preserved by another greybeard cohort and it'll be specialized knowledge that only some people know, but it will be known. Some stuff will be lost because we'll prioritize money and copyright up until there's a crisis, but there are people prepping for this time period. It's not like trade knowledge loss is a new problem. It's just not a sexy one right now.
If every single person with that coding experience only coded, that's likely, but not every person who got their start that way focused on coding to the exclusion of everything else. There are at least a couple of us who are more oriented towards teaching, archiving, and knowledge preservation. Right now, people like us but don't tend to prioritize giving us their resources. Once those greybeards are in their 60s/70s/80s and looking at their work being lost forever, I imagine that will change. (Much in the same way that there's way more discussion now in tech spaces about raising kids now that more programmers are old enough to confront that issue).
That knowledge will likely be preserved by another greybeard cohort and it'll be specialized knowledge that only some people know, but it will be known. Some stuff will be lost because we'll prioritize money and copyright up until there's a crisis, but there are people prepping for this time period. It's not like trade knowledge loss is a new problem. It's just not a sexy one right now.