Comment by q3k
8 hours ago
I think the pay is going to skyrocket for senior devs within a few years, as training juniors that can graduate past pure LLM usage becomes more and more difficult.
Day after day the global quality of software and learning resources will degrade as LLM grey goo consumes every single nook and cranny of the Internet. We will soon see the first signs of pure cargo cult design patterns, conventions and schemes that LLMs made up and then regurgitated. Only people who learned before LLMs became popular will know that they are not to be followed.
People who aren't learning to program without LLMs today are getting left behind.
Yeah, all of this. Plus companies have avoided hiring and training juniors for 3 or 4 years now (which is more related to interest rates than AI). Plus existing seniors who deskill themselves by outsourcing their brain to AI. Seniors who know actually what they're doing are going to be in greater demand.
That is assuming that LLMs plateau in capability, if they haven't already, which I think is highly likely.