Mateus Oliveira Medium The power of artificial intelligence already seriously threatens programmers at the lowest levels. i’m talking about the newly released tool from openai chatgpt. Picture this scene, familiar to anyone who’s conducted code reviews in the past year: a junior developer presents their pull request with the quiet confidence of someone who’s just solved climate change using nothing but positive thinking and a particularly clever regular expression.
Oliveira Junior Medium If companies stop hiring juniors now, the senior pool starts shrinking in 2030. by 2033, every company that cut its junior pipeline in 2024 will be competing for the same diminishing set of experienced engineers. An old friend, great programmer and mathematician, who left ai for quantum computing for a few years, is back to programming. he confided somewhat excitedly that even though he does a lot of programming, he doesn't consider himself a programmer anymore. What’s at stake is the software talent pipeline. junior developers have always been the training ground for tomorrow’s senior engineers and ctos. if ai wipes out that entry level layer, companies risk creating a serious skills gap in the next decade. Hiring junior engineers used to be an investment—mentoring them, giving them small projects, and growing them into valuable team members. that model doesn’t work anymore.
Mateus Ramos Oliveira Medium What’s at stake is the software talent pipeline. junior developers have always been the training ground for tomorrow’s senior engineers and ctos. if ai wipes out that entry level layer, companies risk creating a serious skills gap in the next decade. Hiring junior engineers used to be an investment—mentoring them, giving them small projects, and growing them into valuable team members. that model doesn’t work anymore. While the number of job opportunities for software developer skyrockets together with salaries all around the world, fresh grads and junior developers struggle to even get invited for the interviews. why does it happen and can we do anything about it?. “at some point, current software development jobs will be eliminated; junior software developers will be the first to go,” he adds. A bleak job market, rising expectations, and ai disruption are crushing junior devs. here’s what it means—and what we can do about it. Very rare for me to post smth, but here we are. i think i just read the best and most full article that summarizes thoughts of millions. and i need to thank krzysztof krzyś for this.
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