The 60-year-old coders conquering AI to stay in the workforce

Publication: The Telegraph

Published: 31.12.2025

Experienced professionals in their 50s and 60s are retraining in AI to remain competitive in an evolving workforce, challenging the perception that AI is a young person’s game. Through our Returners Programme, senior professionals are gaining practical AI skills and returning to tech roles across major organisations. The piece highlights how combining AI capability with decades of business experience not only improves employability but also brings critical judgement, context and ethical oversight to the use of emerging technologies.

Stuart Morris, IT Programme Manager said –

“AI can do an awful lot of the grunt work, the rapid data processing and pattern recognition, but what experience brings, is knowing what matters and what’s just noise,” he says. Too often people just blindly follow the LLM. But with age comes wisdom, and on this, we can make a better judgment call.”

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