There could be too many people too, but A.I. is taking (atleast some) junior dev jobs.
Companies are not hiring juniors and instead giving A.I. to the rest of their employees thinking that that will offset the loss of junior jobs.
Of course not every company will be like that, but it seems to be a common trend. If the trend continues, we could end up in a world where there’s a big mid-level to senior shortage because juniors stopped being hired (and therefore trained).
I think this is likely to be a temporary-transient effect, until they figure out that they still need thinking people to work with the LLMs to get what they need. Some of this transition period is going to involve discovery that they didn’t need some of those junior devs in the first place, and eventual discovery that they need more junior devs for new things.
I think it’s IBM that told a story of downsizing 15,000 people in various areas, and re-hiring 20,000 people in other areas - including people tasked with running the AI/LLM interfaces.
And I graduated into the era of AI to not make any anyways :V
AI isn’t taking junior dev jobs. There are just too many people for the jobs available.
There could be too many people too, but A.I. is taking (atleast some) junior dev jobs.
Companies are not hiring juniors and instead giving A.I. to the rest of their employees thinking that that will offset the loss of junior jobs.
Of course not every company will be like that, but it seems to be a common trend. If the trend continues, we could end up in a world where there’s a big mid-level to senior shortage because juniors stopped being hired (and therefore trained).
I think this is likely to be a temporary-transient effect, until they figure out that they still need thinking people to work with the LLMs to get what they need. Some of this transition period is going to involve discovery that they didn’t need some of those junior devs in the first place, and eventual discovery that they need more junior devs for new things.
I think it’s IBM that told a story of downsizing 15,000 people in various areas, and re-hiring 20,000 people in other areas - including people tasked with running the AI/LLM interfaces.
^Prompt Engineer
Anyone who thinks it’s about the prompts (or the programming language du-jour) is missing the real questions.