Job at the age 40

"Companies today have a young workforce, with even their CEOs being under the age of 40. With a low average age today, companies prefer hiring younger candidates, simply because they'd gel well with the company culture and work design."

When I joined corporate world in 2012, there were many 45+ and some 55+ folks among us..... Gradually I have been witnessing slow but steady change in demography.... After 10 years, I am rarely seeing any 55+ folks...and noticeable reduction in 45+ folks. My prediction is AI will make this slow change very steep in next 5 years and we would rarely see any average but highly paid 45+ folks

Planning out finances, hence this question. Also, we are the first generation (in most families) to retire from this sector. What is the age of the most senior employee you know in software. Hardly only 10% make it to the board/senior levels. How about the rest? And can we really take on this kind of stress and work after our 40s and compete with the younger generation?

Reality of market value for people in 40s and 50s: most people find themselves replaceable, their market value drops and difficult to switch career. Thoughts/comments?

Do you think you will still be doing deep technical work in your team after you turn 40 year old ? Have you ever seen a 40 year old coder ? Do you think you can become a manager and mange a team after you turn 35 ? Do you possess managerial skill ? Currently lots of layoffs are happening around you. Your job can be replaced by A.I in future. If you get laid off, do you have any other skills to make it as a source of income ? Will you encourage your child to get into IT industry (software engineering) or some other field where A.I interference is not accepted ?

I was curious, that what will happen to the people who are right now working in growth, program managers, or in fact as business analysts, SDEs after 15 years. I am 25 Years old right now, and all I can see is people aged between 21-30 in startups. 30-35 year old people are less than 5% of the workforce. After 10 years, all my age group people will be 35, and all the roles I see at that age, are too scarce. Will it be too difficult to switch jobs then, or career, hikes will kinda stagnate there? Want to know from other experienced people that where does the crowd go?

As a poll pointed out most people on platform are from 25-35 age group. We saw the tech bubble and are riding the wave comfortably. What are your thoughts tech industry and job opportunity post 45. My plan is to get FIREd by that time but curious what roles if any do you take on at this age? Do we all take up as managers and become the thing we hate? Any scope of still remaining an IC and getting paid a similar income? I have been mostly working in startups and the oldest guy I have worked with was 37 and I am generally see very few old people in tech, though I have 0 MNC exposure.

Wanted to say Hi, what do you do, how do you see current phase of your life, how do you look at your career so far, and what do you plan to do in next 5 years, etc.