[moritonal]

When I started my career I heard people say almost verbatim "Stack overflow is making junior devs useless", with the idea all we did was copypaste scripts over. The same people failed, and the same people who can use the tools will succeed now.

[ehnto]

You definitely did see a difference between people who just copy pasted from stack overflow, and from people with good fundamentals. The uncomfortable truth though, is that the industry didn't need good coders, it needed a bucket load of basic web apps and it needed bums in seats.

I think the irony of AI is going to be that it will make the remaining software jobs properly hard again, and implementers (ex coders) will be able to succeed with even less code knowledge than before.

[52-6F-62]

I'm not sure sure.

I worked under people who started as juniors that way but were politically savvy. Or just ruthless. And pushed their way to the top by stealing projects, lying through their teeth, and other such tactics.

They were slowing down progress because their methods involved sabotaging the progress of others because it might make their own contributions shine a little less.

They were the cause of using libraries like leftPad all through business critical code, and cutting anyone down who dared to simply question why.

These things cause ripples. The smartest and most capable staff leaves, what results is a churn of the same kind.

But hey, they get a trip to Mexico every year and burn through millions every two years. Profit any day now.