I don't know if you mean "too late in my life", or "too late as the world has moved on" but in either case, the answer is a resounding no.
I started coding when I was somewhat younger than you (I am almost twice your age), which means that I know a bunch of weird stuff like what "protected mode" meant on the 80286 processor. Fun, but completely useless today. I am currently making UI with Tailwind CSS and writing Typescript, stuff that I had to learn within the past two years or so. That doesn't mean that my experience is useless of course, far from it, but it shows how much the industry moves and how you might very well learn a valuable skill that someone with more experience lacks.
If you are asking about whether it's too late because of the industry somehow, the answer is even clearer. You might think that the NoCode trend looks scary or that AI is going to take over soon or whatever. The AI part I can't speak to, but certainly there has never been a greater demand for developers and I don't see that stopping in any near future. The thing is, developing software is really about expressing concepts to a machine in a way that satisfies users. Tools constantly help us do that more efficiently but that in turns creates demand for more sophisticated products. Learn how to build those and you will always be able to find a way to make yourself valuable.
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I don't know if you mean "too late in my life", or "too late as the world has moved on" but in either case, the answer is a resounding no.
I started coding when I was somewhat younger than you (I am almost twice your age), which means that I know a bunch of weird stuff like what "protected mode" meant on the 80286 processor. Fun, but completely useless today. I am currently making UI with Tailwind CSS and writing Typescript, stuff that I had to learn within the past two years or so. That doesn't mean that my experience is useless of course, far from it, but it shows how much the industry moves and how you might very well learn a valuable skill that someone with more experience lacks.
If you are asking about whether it's too late because of the industry somehow, the answer is even clearer. You might think that the NoCode trend looks scary or that AI is going to take over soon or whatever. The AI part I can't speak to, but certainly there has never been a greater demand for developers and I don't see that stopping in any near future. The thing is, developing software is really about expressing concepts to a machine in a way that satisfies users. Tools constantly help us do that more efficiently but that in turns creates demand for more sophisticated products. Learn how to build those and you will always be able to find a way to make yourself valuable.