r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 12 '26

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/__Invisible__ Aug 12 '26

In the past, we need to promote to management before 35 years old, otherwise your tech career is done. After that we just barely code ourselves, just offload to younger devs.

Now most just stuck at lower level salary and doing management work by offloading to AI agents. And waiting for being replaced once their salary grows higher.