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@remi @recursive 52 years old here. I’ve been doing software development as a career since my previous career went poof when I was 28. I knew just enough at the time to get an entry-level position at a company that basically needed someone who knew how to make web sites remember form data, and then do cool stuff with the data.

Especially later on (late 30s onward) it’s been important to change focus every few years. Doesn’t necessarily mean “new job” or “new company” but picking up new responsibilities to avoid stagnation in one area of thinking. In other words, you have to be a bit proactive in identifying things you could do and working them into what you actually get to do. My last 15 years took me from fairly generic web dev to mostly-backend-with-a-lot-of-DevOpsy stuff to working primarily with data-specific projects (no web, lots of backend infrastructure development).