Middle-Aged Coder

The 42-year-old Gu Cheng is a veteran architect who once built the core system of a large factory. However, due to his age, salary and inability to package, he was pushed to the edge by the 28-year-old airborne director Zhou Yan. The medical examination report turned red, the mortgage payment, his daughter's tuition fees, his mother's surgery fees and the layoff list came all at once. He was forced to resign, but he legally took away a piece of marginal intellectual property that had been abandoned by the company for many years. No one knows that Gu Cheng has saved servers, open source code and the experience of old colleagues over the years to train "old comrades" for privatized agents. Others use AI to write code, but he uses AI to review business black boxes, predict architectural disasters, and schedule middle-aged engineers' experience base. In the early stage, the company was revolted by resignations, outsourced fortunes were made, and competing products were defeated. In the mid-term, the core climax was the company's epic downtime, the chairman's visit to ask for help, and Gu Cheng becoming a god. In the later stage, Gu Cheng established the "Veterans Will Not Die" technology alliance and led the eliminated 35 engineers to fight against the capital-packaged AI bubble, the encirclement and suppression of giants, and the underlying system-level crisis. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.