
Should Programmers Have Mandatory Retirement Ages? Debunking Tech's Cruelest Myth
Picture this: You’re thirty-four years and eleven months old, and your calendar shows a red circle around tomorrow—the day you supposedly become obsolete. According to industry folklore, you’re about to hit the expiration date stamped on your programmer ID. After that magical thirty-fifth birthday, the algorithm of life supposedly stops compiling your career, leaving you with nothing but legacy code and regrets. Except this is complete nonsense. The “programmer retirement age of 35” myth has haunted the tech industry like a ghost that refuses to acknowledge it’s been debunked a thousand times over....



