A lengthy preamble and then just… an advice to keep kicking, remain curious, tinker around and see how things are now, adjust to the new situation?
Am I missing something? Because it was always like that, you stop exploring and playing with new stuff and in just a blink you’re no longer relevant. (Which sucks if you’re burnt out or depressed.)
Ultimately he's pointing out the scope of the changes is significantly different. It's nothing like before when you could've kept up by learning new programming languages and frameworks.
Where we're going, programming languages and frameworks are rapidly losing relevance.