[jack1689]

I feel it has rather created an opportunity for a junior programmer to deliver 5x faster than before and it has lowered the barriers to be a decent junior developer. Perhaps in today's job market for junior devs what changed are the metrics against which they are judged for. It's not just knowing theory of coding, it's about speed at which you ship and most importantly quality. Ultimately, how good is such a developer to push code with agents. What do you think?

[calvinmorrison]

I see the opposite economic problem. Guys in their 50s with a house for 120K and a 2.0 mortgage and no kids in the house or graduated cost less than a young junior with a wife and kids and a house

[jack1689]

100% would echo that - but I'd say it's a wide problem across job markets not just for junior programmers

[MattGaiser]

The problem is that someone has to oversee the junior and the multiplier on productivity also applies to the overseer.

So you could have the senior oversee the junior or just have them oversee Claude.

[icedchai]

Yep. I've worked with a couple of juniors that were acting as poorly working proxies for AI. If I have to review the output anyway, it is easier to eliminate the middleman.

[ttoinou]

Difficult truth, but that’s the truth we need to accept