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title: "Reply to: The Aging Programmer — Kate Gregory (2024) — YouTube"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2026/04/reply-to-the-aging-programmer-kate-gregory-2024-youtube/
last_updated: 2026-04-21
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This was a great talk!

In a C++ conference, who would have imagined?

Via [Adam Gordon Bell](https://corecursive.com/the-aging-programmer/):

> Kate Gregory has been writing C++ for over forty years. Books, keynotes, a
> consulting firm she built from the ground up. At sixty-three, she's one of the
> most experienced programmers alive.
>
> She surveyed hundreds of software engineers about getting older. What scares
> you? What's changed? What have you lost? The things people feared most —
> memory, stamina, keeping up — weren't the real threats. The stuff that was
> actually breaking down was mostly fixable. A bad knee wasn't aging, it was a
> torn cartilage. Wrist pain disappeared when she changed how she slept.