AI has torched the market for junior programmers
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Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#2Anecdotally we haven’t hired junior engineers in over a year and do not plan to.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#3Anecdotally we haven’t hired junior engineers in over a year and do not plan to.
Same here.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#4I suspect that the last white collar workers have been trained outside of regulated fields.
If it can be taught, an AI can do it. The only work left is either manual or inherently new.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#5On the flip side, IS this a good thing for senior engineers?
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#6On the flip side, IS this a good thing for senior engineers?
No, because ageism.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#7The article makes the false assumption that you can only get better at software engineering by a 1:1 interaction when someone better. It doesn't address that AI can take this role. It doesn't address that there doesn't have to be a job market for junior developers for more senior developers to be created. There are other ways like reading or creating your own software to become senior level.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#8I feel it has rather created an opportunity for a junior programmer to deliver 5x faster than before and it has lowered the barriers to be a decent junior developer. Perhaps in today's job market for junior devs what changed are the metrics against which they are judged for. It's not just knowing theory of coding, it's about speed at which you ship and most importantly quality. Ultimately, how good is such a developer to push code with agents. What do you think?
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#9I suspect that the last white collar workers have been trained outside of regulated fields. If it can be taught, an AI can do it. The only work left is either manual or inherently new.
you sound like a CEO.
Re: AI has torched the market for junior programmers
#10> We are watching programming stop being a job title and become a capability, the same way "typist" stopped being a job title when it became a thing everyone was expected to know.
Casually pretending that decades of software engineers comparing programming to typing and saying "you are not a programmer, that is not a job" long before chatbots, didn't exist.
The job was always "software architect", "software engineer", "web developer", etc.