[swatcoder]

Juniors already have bad and sometimes even negative ROI but today's working junior is the trusted engineer of tomorrow and the senior of the day after that. The problems they work on impart the knowledge and instincts that advance them through towards mastery and real value.

Budget-myopic executives already tried transfering that work to cheaper labor markets, but it worked much less than they expected and most ended up with unmaintainable software and loss of any hope for an actual engineering advantage against competitors. There's nothing new here.

There will be organizations that find a good and smart use for fully automated code generation, just like there is for outsourcing/offshoring, but it's not a universal win to just go with what's "cheaper" and organizations that don't look at the big picture are (as usual) trading short-term accounting gains for long-term value erosion.