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If AI makes junior developers "better" than senior developers then what stops senior developers from adopting the tools and becoming once again better than the juniors?

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They are older and learn slower, they also learned a lot of biases over the years. They are often unwilling to accept major changes to workflow.

Maybe the second sentence is true but

> They are older and learn slower, they also learned a lot of biases over the years

Hasn’t this been disproven time and time again. And research has shown continuous learning helps to prevent or delay cognitive decline.

I don't see why that would contradict my statement. Yes learning is good, but it becomes harder as we age.

> They are older and learn slower, they also learned a lot of biases over the years.

Wow, I rarely see such unwarranted confidence in such a blatantly wrong statement.

It's basically true for every profession. We even have a word for it, we call it wise. They built up an experience that they rely on during decision making and produce good results. Changing that is hard.

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