How is doing either going to keep you competitive in the market when everyone is coding faster than you using modern tools?
That stance honestly sound like me not using a compiler and doing everything in assembly like I did 40 years ago in my bedroom in 6th grade on my Apple //e.
I might be an old guy at 51. But I’m not that old guy. I’m the old guy who didn’t have to worry about “ageism” in 2020 when I got my first (and hopefully last ) job at BigTech in 2020, another after looking for two weeks in 2023 (with 3 offers) and another in 2024 when looking just by responding to an internal recruiter - I’m a staff cloud consultant (full time) specializing in app dev.
Not claiming I’m special. But I like to eat, stay clothes and stay housed. I do what it takes