Juniors are only in trouble if us seniors stop hiring, training and mentoring. Don’t.

We need to continue the tradition of elevating humans through mentoring or we won’t have a future scaffolding for work to be done.

I spend a ton of time mentoring Jrs in FOSS communities, but I confess as a startup founder myself I could simply not justify hiring anyone but self-directed seniors until we are profitable enough to set some money on fire for what would effectively be just a long term investment in creating a few new Srs. But Jr hiring will never again be what it was unless it gets subsidized somehow as partial charity.