Comment by ath3nd

> AI will cause senior developers to become 10 times more effective

Bold statement! In the real world, senior developers were actually 19% less effective by using LLMs in the only study up to date.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

Very brave to have an edgy opinion based on vibes that is counter to the only actual study though. Claiming that things are XYZ just because it feels like it is all the rage nowadays, good for being with the times.

> Unfortunately for the writer, he will probably get fired because of AI. But not because AI will replace him - because seniors will

Here is another prediction for you. In the current real world LLMs create mountains of barely working slop on a clean project, and slowly pollute it with trash feature after feature. The LGTM senior developers will just keep merging and merging until the project becomes such a tangled mess that the LLM takes billion tokens to fix it or it outright can't, and these so called senior developers had their skills deteriorate to such an extent that they'd need to call the author of the article to save them from the mess they created with their fancy autocomplete.