The Half-Life of Your Skills Is 2 Years (And Dropping)
The Layoff He Didn’t See Coming A 38-year-old senior developer. Eight years at the company. Clean code, best practices, zero production incidents. In his last performance review, his output was 40% lower than colleagues with half his experience. The difference: they used Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. He kept writing every line by hand, convinced that “AI tools generate mediocre code.” He wasn’t fired for writing bad code. He was fired for writing good code too slowly. ...