Comment by pjmlp

I feel the pain, and if I get unemployed now on my 50's, most likely I will do something else outside computing.

Everyone that praises how they get more productive always forgets that means big corp now needs less of us.

I work on enterprise consulting, and have watched how the change into managed cloud infrastructure, followed by low-code/no-code tooling, has had an impact on team sizes, meaning less devs for the same outcome.

AI driven development is reducing those team sizes even further.

In many European countries, gettting jobs at a later age is really an almost impossible task, the easiest solutions end up trying to get early retirement status, or go self employed, which also isn't without its own set of complications.