> AI is not replacing you or an education. AI is raising the bar of what you can comprehend and retain. From someone who is technically minded (and self-taught), all I have ever wanted is to keep learning.

AI is, in my opinion, absolutely murdering the junior dev market. It's now much more efficient to pay for a senior or staff engineer and set them up with a subscription to claude or codex. I think things are going to remain fine for senior+ engineers, but I genuinely don't know what advice I'd give to graduating devs at this time.

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gim89 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I agree with the caveat that a lot of "seniors" (in name only) will be discarded as well. Title inflation finally comes back go bite people.

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slowin an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Being a senior engineer doesn't really have anything to do with how long you've been developing. I've met amazing 21 year old developers who can out code people doing this for 20+ years in their sleep. I would say one of the reasons "seniors" are so much better with AI is because they have CS fundamentals. They know what to ask, they know systems design, they know what ACID is, they understand race conditions...

AI + CS allows you to develop with leverage I've never seen before.

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joshheitzman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's notable that you said "out code" not "out engineer".

	▲	Capricorn2481 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you're desperate to discredit the substance of the comment with pedantic word games, sure. What they are describing sounds like engineering to me.

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tcdent an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns

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mistrial9 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> who can out code people doing this for 20+ years

zero context for the work, so .. javascript?

	▲	goalieca an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. This is absolutely not the case when I worked on control systems, cryptography, or anything else that isn’t a CRUD saas.