Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
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Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#2I was planning to build 100 mini tools for SEO.
The goal was to hire a dev team. I approached an oursroucing agency and they told one tool will cost 1k-4k. So the budget is between $100k-$400k.
I decided to try to do it with AI developers. Tried bolt.new, v0 and then replit. Replit did the work the best. It took me less than half an hour to make the tool I wanted. Now I wanna spend the next 10 days making all these tools myself.
Anyone doing the same?
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#3Creating mini tools is pretty effortless with any AI code gen tool. Maintaining them, adding additional features, scaling, etc. are things that require humans.
I believe every Jr dev should be learning how to use code gen tools as they are likely here to stay, but not overly rely on them, and use them like any other tool.
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
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Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#5What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs?
How do you get medium/senior devs in the future?
That pipeline is needed.
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#6What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs? How do you get medium/senior devs in the future? That pipeline is needed.
Too late, we already kicked the ladder out and the hit isn't going to be felt until the people responsible have moved on.
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#7Are carpenters cooked? I went to home depot, bought a hammer, nails, and some wood, and built a mini shelf.
Building trivial tools with AI doesn't mean that devs won't have jobs. It might mean that people won't be able to make a living whipping out brochure-ware web sites for their friends, but that market was just about dead anyway. And maybe it will even be able to handle basic CRUD apps. That doesn't mean the industry is dead, it just means the bar for low-hanging fruit is now hanging a little higher.
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#8What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs? How do you get medium/senior devs in the future? That pipeline is needed.
Too late, we already kicked the ladder out and the hit isn't going to be felt until the people responsible have moved on.
I worry there's an executive zeitgeist of: "Let someone else train them up, then we'll hire them away afterwards."
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#9Companies that are happy with this, er, Automated Search Copy-Paste as a Service will deserve what happens to 'em.
Re: Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Too late, we already kicked the ladder out and the hit isn't going to be felt until the people responsible have moved on.
I worry there's an executive zeitgeist of: "Let someone else train them up, then we'll hire them away afterwards."
Yeah it’s already been going on. All the “you need 5 years of experience for entry level work” stuff you see.
Encouraging AI to replace people is just going to make it worse, on top of all the other possible issues.