[LVB]

Younger programmers will latch on to the newest trends and make you obsolete... Your best bet is to get out of coding and into management or into entrepreneurship as soon as possible.

I'm starting to bristle at this attitude because I'm encountering it more and more often. The implication that others (the young) "make you" obsolete is just BS. Most professions require one to keep up with new trends, and programming is no exception.

The other implication is that management is some sort of Golden Acres for people to end up in when they can't keep up with their younger and sharper coworker, ostensibly because it is easier, slower, or doesn't have new trends? This should be similarly annoying to managers.

[hunterp]

This was my article.

A team is a group of people that are greater than the sum of parts alone. A manager coordinates the team, keeps them on target, and brings out the magic that only good teams have. Can you have an orchestra without a conductor?...same goes for a team.

And I would rather keep up with new trends by hiring someone with those new skills than having to learn them myself. Call me lazy, but I call this entrepreneurial.

Studies have shown that the older you get, the more strategic your thinking becomes, but the less sharp your raw calculation power. Same reason the fields medal in mathematics is only awarded to those under 40.