[bmurphy1976]

This trend started long before AI. Everybody needs 10+ years experience to get a job anywhere. As an industry we've been terrible at up-leveling the younger generations.

I've been fighting this battle for years in my org and every time we start to make progress we go through yet another crisis and have to let some of our junior staff go. Then when we need to hire again it's an emergency and we can only hire more senior staff because we need to get things done and nobody is there to fill the gaps.

It's been a vicious cycle to break.

[popcorncowboy]

I can second this cycle. Agentic code AI is an accelerant to this fire that sure looks like it's burning the bottom rungs of the ladder. Game theory suggests anyone already on the ladder needs to chop off as much of the bottom of the ladder as fast as possible. The cycle appears to only be getting.. vicious-er.