You're probably imagining the aforementioned mentor as a wise white-haired sensei one step away from retirement, but here's the kicker - it's a colleague 20 years my junior.
More than half of developers, 51%, said they mainly assemble code written by others, and 58% don’t feel that writing code from scratch will be required as part of their roles in the future, says Atlassian’s State of the Developer report.