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by badsectoracula 559 days ago
> Juniors today can learn exponentially faster with LLMs and don't need seniors as much. [...] Take me for example, I've been programming for 20 years

You are not a junior, you already rely on 20 years of experience.

Last time i did any sort of web development was 20 ago, but i thought to try some C# (touched last time ~10 years ago) + Blazor for an idea i had and it took me a couple of days to feel comfortable and start making stuff. While i haven't written for the web in a very very long time, my experience with other tech helped a lot.

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His experience is the same in mine , the juniors in our team are super productive in a way that realistically would not have been possible for them before these tools. They just don't get stuck that much anymore so they don't need the seniors as much. I do think the field will be somewhat commoditized in the coming decade.
The web, especially frontend feels far more foreign than any backend or "traditional" programming. The errors suck, sometimes you get no error and have no idea why it isn't working etc. So in a sense I feel like a junior