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I agree with the sentiment. But is that exclusive to junior engineers? Curious if you think that the same problem exists with senior engineers or not.

Thanks. How do you think that lowers the value of an intern, can you explain it? You're right that pre-AI that feature would not have been given to an intern (because they wouldn't…

They surely cannot. But they can own simple problems end to end.

That’s a good point. My whole career has been in product/tech led companies.

But I agree that now it’s something people can catch up. The point is that I think it will make a difference if you’re someone that never coded manually vs someone that is (un)lear…

I think it’s an oversimplification to say that using AI for se dev is a trivial skill. You can see it even now with some people chatting with Claude and others running multiple age…

I agree. Although I think that was never the job. Even without AI, the practice of subdividing work into coding tasks was not a good one. AI just made it obvious.

Author here. My last post on this reached the front page, and the main objection was that after AI, the junior's marginal value is gone: if a junior just passes specs to an AI tool…

Author here. Good points. You are correct that there is an increasing trend for dismissing the value of junior engineers. And that is the argument: I don't think it makes sense, ev…