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The Death of the Junior Developer

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Re: The Death of the Junior Developer

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The examples about law offices, and writers, is not wrong. This is happening. The article might be too long, or you might not like the style, but the concepts are correct. While this somewhat seems like pitch for 'Cody', I don't think it is, it's just what the author is familiar with from his own company. Doesn't hide that it is a wrapper on other tools. "Cody Pro lets you use both GPT-4o and Claude (and others), so…

I think you're being far too kind to the author.

I like some of his earlier writing but this is a straight up sales pitch. From the clickbait title sowing fear to the fact that he describes a system of using these models that just happens to coincide with what his tool does. And he's also such a nice guy he's going to start educating people on how to follow his system.

Just another person trying to cash in on the LLM hype. And he's doing so at the expense of aspiring developers that don't know enough to spot the BS.

Pretty appalling behavior.

Re: The Death of the Junior Developer

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Yup yup, in the words of Olivia Rodrigo, it's brutal out here. I've found it nigh impossible to sell my programming skills as a web dev. Instead I've found freelance work doing technical writing and making Urbit apps on the side. Wish me luck. Anyone wants to code together to train for that imaginary dream junior dev job in the sky, hmu! Always happy to learn with friends :)

Companies are still looking for junior developers (in the US). If you're dead set on being a developer then go out and build things that you want to build. It will hopefully be an enjoyable process and you'll continue to improve along the way.

If that sounds like a terrible idea then consider switching to a different field, the trades are booming right now.

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