dont pity
he allowed himself to be outdated.
Programmer (very good 1) still currently the most lucrative/ high demand job

i am dev myself i know.

90% coder are rubbish.
the code they write is work but the logic is stupid and dont scale very well.

Put inside a GPT3.5 Turbo ( the most lousy AI now ), can do better...

But the remaining 10% protege coder totally on another side of story....