[thr1owaway9621]

> Currently, the level of computing intuition needed to additively prompt the coding agents sits at roughly 5 years’ experience level. Today’s seniors were lucky enough to get paid to build their computing intuition, but the gap grows as coding agents continue to improve.

I am struggling to interpret what they mean by "gap". Gap between what two things?

The gap between juniors and seniors?

The gap between ${AI + 0 YOE} and ${AI + N YOE}? Where N is the growing "gap"? Eg, as AI gets better, you need more and more YOE to justify throwing a salaried human into the loop?

[kevinrineer]

The referenced gap is the supposed numeracy of developers 5 years ago and developers today, whether they be junior or senior developers.

There is a strong downward trend toward decreasing numeracy in high school graduates and it has existed, supposedly, since 2013. This observation seems to be extrapolated to developers in the quote you reference.