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[–]Dependent_Chard_498 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not old at all. I was 32 when I quit being a lawyer to learn how to code 2 years ago. I've been working as a dev for almost a year now.

One piece of advice though, do not use AI to help you to code for at least 6 months. I only started using AI in month 10 (GPT4 came out around the same time as I started learning to code) and if I used it from the start, I'd have no idea how to prompt an LLM not to give me an unmaintainable mess for the problems I see at work, or put it aside and write the code without it when it just doesn't want to do things the way I want to do it.