I think it is less about junior engineers, and more just about the kinds of work inexperienced/cheap developers are often doing: assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker type development.

This is especially impacting Indian tech workers in the US [0] since these are often the types of roles that InfoSys and other foreign tech consulting firms are staffing. The new $100,000 fee to sponsor an H1B visa has made it difficult to justify hiring foreign tech workers when most of the time they are just going to be using American LLMs to do their work anyway.

[0] https://thefederal.com/category/news/h1b-visa-indian-tech-wo...

The $100,000 H1B fee is probably one of the only ambiguously good things the Trump admin did.

Genuinely need a skilled worker? Well $100,000 is quite a lot, but not absurd relative to US salaries.

Just trying to bring over an Indian to work as an indentured slave and undercut American workers? Not so fast.

It's honestly a much better model than what most European countries do, which is make the company do a massive amount of paperwork to prove they can't hire a local (also costs a lot, but in a much more annoying and inefficient way)