Hi! Also in my 40s, 20+ years of experience. I took the coding career because I like solving problems with code. I use agents for one-shot tasks, quickly understand big code bases, finding what I need in messy documentation, have a test suite foundation (things which I always didn't like much). I will continue this way for now because, honestly, if my job has to become reviewing tons of code vomited by an AI the whole day, I'd rather become a bar tender. I won't jump the panic train now just because everyone is obsessed with coding agents. Wait a couple of years, see what will actually remain out of this bubble and then see if and how to pivot, now it's not the time. Indeed if you have interests and budget, do go back to school and reinvent yourself, but that should be a decision independent from the current AI hype.
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Hi! Also in my 40s, 20+ years of experience. I took the coding career because I like solving problems with code. I use agents for one-shot tasks, quickly understand big code bases, finding what I need in messy documentation, have a test suite foundation (things which I always didn't like much). I will continue this way for now because, honestly, if my job has to become reviewing tons of code vomited by an AI the whole day, I'd rather become a bar tender. I won't jump the panic train now just because everyone is obsessed with coding agents. Wait a couple of years, see what will actually remain out of this bubble and then see if and how to pivot, now it's not the time. Indeed if you have interests and budget, do go back to school and reinvent yourself, but that should be a decision independent from the current AI hype.