I think it is less about junior/mid 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...

I’d expect that layer of the industry to shrink substantially.

Although, I don’t think immigration or country of origin is particularly relevant here. I never worked in the US but there are plenty of "assembly line" developers here in London too.

If your job is essentially taking a ticket and turning it into code without contributing much else, then yes, I think that category of developer is going to be decimated.

That applies equally to everyone.

What's with people using the number "0" for their first reference? I have only ever seen that practice here at Hacker News.