You need to constantly evolve as a programmer if you want to stand out

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Software developers must continuously learn and adapt by following industry trends, picking up new languages and frameworks, and refining their skills to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving field. The way developers work evolves significantly over time, often requiring them to adopt new tools, techniques, and environments.

1 year vs 10 years as a programmer

This is no longer true. With the mass layoffs in recent years following these trends, environments, techniques, and tools will put you out of work faster. You are just a disposable developer for big companies.
What you need to do now is train your developer skills that do not depend on these fast moving skills. Over a longer period of time, you will outpace all these people who are being discarded.
Small example, I want to build a website, do I need a shiny framework? Or just a string sent to some kind of output.
<pre><code class="language-C#">using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

class Program
{
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
 // Define the HTTP listener and specify the URL and port to listen on
 HttpListener listener = new HttpListener();
 listener.Prefixes.Add(&quot;http://localhost:8080/&quot;); // Listening on localhost, port 8080

 // Start the listener
 listener.Start();
 Console.WriteLine(&quot;Server started. Listening on http://localhost:8080/&quot;);
 
 // Run an infinite loop to handle incoming requests
 while (true)
 {
 // Wait for an incoming request
 HttpListenerContext context = listener.GetContext();
 
 // Retrieve the request and prepare a response
 HttpListenerRequest request = context.Request;
 HttpListenerResponse response = context.Response;

 // Set the response content
 string responseString = &quot;&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Hello, World!&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;&quot;;
 byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseString);

 // Set the content type and length
 response.ContentType = &quot;text/html&quot;;
 response.ContentLength64 = buffer.Length;

 // Send the response back to the client
 response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
 response.OutputStream.Close();

 Console.WriteLine(&quot;Handled request from &quot; + request.RemoteEndPoint);
 }
 }
}

</code></pre>

I think that software developers are the ones who must have an open mindset to always learning and coding