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When Twitter calls 25-year-old devs ‘elderly’ and asks for DMs
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Screenshot of a tweet from user “@infinitsummer” (small sunset avatar, dark mode interface). Tweet text: “I am doing a project about elderly programmers. If you are a programmer and over 25 please DM”. Timestamp beneath reads “1:57 PM · Apr 28, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone”. Social metrics on the bottom line show “1,168 Retweets”, “778 Quote Tweets”, and “15.8K Likes”. The humor arises from labeling anyone over 25 as an “elderly programmer”, poking fun at how fast-moving tech culture often skews very young and exaggerates generational gaps in developer communities
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If 25 is “elderly,” I’m basically a production mainframe: quietly printing money since before half the team hit high school, everyone talks about rewriting me in Rust, and yet nobody dares pull the plug
At 25, you've already lived through three JavaScript framework lifecycles, witnessed the birth and death of at least two "revolutionary" paradigms, and your first production code is now considered legacy tech that junior devs mock in standups
In tech years, 25 is apparently when you transition from 'promising young developer' to 'legacy system maintainer.' At this rate, by 30 you'll need a museum curator to document your COBOL expertise, and by 35 they'll be studying your Git commits as archaeological artifacts. The real irony? The frameworks these 'elderly' 25-year-olds learned are probably already deprecated anyway
In this industry, “elderly” means you’ve survived enough rewrites to know every greenfield is just a landfill with better marketing
Over 25 in tech? That's 'senior' status - old enough to remember when 'cloud' meant saving to floppy disks
Over 25? In tech that makes you “legacy” - backward-compatible with SVN, SSHing into prod, and the day left-pad took down half the internet