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It's the same in software and likely every industry. Yeah, you still have plenty of very senior folks who have adopted the cloud and are building things in modern ways and on the bleeding edge of things. Then you've got the crusty HN types who think a Hetzner VM and Postgres is the best way to solve all the problems in the world and javascript is the bane of all existence. I've met the 50 year old developer who has written nothing but Java enterprise apps for the last 20 years who are all but useless outside of their niche, and a 60 year old developer who is still as giddy as a child while he's playing with code generation models. If technology is your passion, it's far easier to stay up to date and stay relevant. If technology is just your chosen career, you've got to intentionally put in the effort to stay up to date or risk becoming out of touch with the industry. There are passionate doctors and career doctors. Passionate home builders and career home builders. Etc. Etc.



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