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AI coding tools are replacing entry-level programming jobs faster than anyone predicted. The traditional path from junior to senior developer is collapsing, and the consequences for the entire industry could be devastating. If you mentor juniors or hire them, this one hits different.

  • Mikina ( Mikina@programming.dev ) 
    42·
    8 months ago

    Tbh from my experiences, AI is also turning current senior devs into juniors. The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude (since we’ve gotten access at my job).

    The skills I’ve spent a great part of my life acquiring are really not worth whatever advantages AI use may have, even if I just did my job to earn a paycheck and didn’t care about the quality of my output, as long as it’s acceptable. It may feel easier now, but eventually you will have to pass another interview, and good luck when the last time you actually coded without AI was a year ago.

    • lichtmetzger ( lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
      12·
      8 months ago

      The skill erosion is real, and I could see it on myself just after a week of trying out Claude

      While it took me a few months to really notice it, that still shocked me. Using AI extensively makes you depend on it - and that’s exactly what the big players want. A customer paying a recurring subscription just to do their job.

      Since I am not forced to use it, I deleted my OpenAI account and started to code without LLM assistance again. It’s much more fun to solve problems by myself (and get a dopamine kick out of that) anyway - and when the bubble inevitably pops, I can still go on as I did before.

    • mspencer712 ( mspencer712@programming.dev ) 
      11·
      8 months ago

      I’m with you, stuck at a billion dollar software company with an AI fetish. It’s a great search tool, can write some decent unit tests. But God help you if you let it write production code, for any of the “you won’t find this on stackexchange” stuff we all work on.

    • SleeplessCityLights ( SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ) 
      7·
      8 months ago

      It’s creating this state of mind which is going to kill everything. I was coding a website for fun on the weekend and streaming for one of my friends to see how some stuff works. Every other fucking person that joined the call opened with “I see you are vibe coding a website” when they could visibly see that i was not logged into coopilot, i was using VS on my gaming PC like a chump. These are all CS people and now everything defaults to using an LLM. We are doomed as a whole.