Comment by fud101
5 days ago
So what is the end game here, we don't have any juniors? That's what we're celebrating? This whole thing makes no damn sense, we're just becoming more efficient at producing bad code at scale, which will be maintained by a workforce that is growing less proficient at that with the increasing adoption of AI - skills will decline and eventually we'll be living with more buggy software, maintained by underpaid, unappreciated and overwhelmed grey beards and it will be too late to turn back.
I had a call with a recruiter the other day, who told me that they had simply stopped hiring juniors at all, when not too long ago they would be camping out at colleges on graduation day to snipe fresh graduates.
This is going to a problem real soon. There needs to be a realistic career path for software developers, or the entire field is at risk.
This. No more juniors, and the skills of the seniors is going to atrophy when all they're doing is review and "move around" code an LLM spat out.