Not obvious from the title, but this is a great post on why it's a terrible terrible time to be an entry-level developer right now:

* Job market sucks for junior devs due to the end of ZIRP and normalization of layoffs

* Dearth of good developer role models due to the "public sphere" getting worse (collapse of developer twitter community, rise of vacuous influencers). I'm a little skeptical about this one as I didn't really benefit much from these sources myself when getting into the industry. And there's always hacker news, which is doing fine!

* Loss of good mentorship opportunities due to rise of remote work

* AI tools are good for seniors who already know how to do things, but terrible for junior devs trying to learn. This is the forklifts metaphor. (And AI is probably not helping the junior dev job market either, although that was already bad for other reasons as mentioned above.)

I am truly worried about where the next generation of senior devs is going to come from. Some juniors, maybe 10% of them, will be fine no matter what: brilliant engineers who are disciplined enough to teach themselves the skills they need and can also adapt well to AI dev tools. I don't worry about them. But I worry about what happens to the median junior engineer, and consequently what our profession will look like in 10-20 years.

I used to have a good cluster of twitter accounts to learn from for AI and programming but that has really fallen apart with the algorithm changes.