Comment by keeda
3 hours ago
There is mixed evidence on the impact of AI on developer jobs, but on the balance it seems that to the extent AI is impacting dev jobs, it is mostly the junior roles that are being affected.
There is even some evidence that suggests senior roles are more in demand (and getting correspondingly higher pay too) which gels with the common observation that senior workers are more effective at managing the AI which is doing the work of (and hence displacing) junior workers.
Asking a chatbot or Google AI overviews should surface relevant studies.
I have been feeling like “mostly junior roles being affected” has been a false indicator or false narrative.
Junior roles are always affected when industries have high unemployment rates.
I don’t think AI has eliminated the need for junior engineers, nor will it, it’s just that companies have their pick of available experienced hires.
I would think that junior engineers would make more sense in an era where AI can fix and catch rookie mistakes.