The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
At this point I am convinced that the stack treadmill most of IT is jogging on gets propped mostly by the people who want to up their salaries by keeping as many people out of their niche as possible. Older devs probably get hit by this harder than most, because I&#x27;d imagine the treadmill gets more tiresome as the time goes by, you see more hype cycles, and become more aware of it. But older devs are by no means the only ones who are affected.<p>&quot;Keeping up with with new technologies&quot; is generally a euphemism for &quot;uses a random set of frameworks I chose&quot;. Amusingly, devs who demand everyone to learn their frameworks are often the same people who try to stop anyone at their company from using or doing anything genuinely new, because it would undermine their position.<p>This is, BTW, why there is so much talk about the &quot;shortage&quot; of software engineers right now.