Even clearer, if you don't adapt to the changes taking place in the field there might not be a future for you. Its not about age, it is about attitude and flexibility (which are, admittedly, issues when getting older).

In other words, if you want to continue stubbornly typing out code by hand, the person right over there has already mastered agentic tooling and is doing vastly more than you, more quickly, and with greater precision, and will simply be a more fit candidate to hire. Roles for this type of legacy stubborn personality will be less and less, and you will age out as part of the old school.

I see what you're getting at, but if it's not about age, why use an age related analogy? I probably should have amended my first statement in this thread is that it sounds ageist, if even implying that the people who will refuse to adapt will be older. This day is already here, people are already adapting to this. He seemed to frame it as the current young 20's career people will have this limited timeframe of productivity.