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The new generation of devs are going to be barefoot and pregnant and kept in the kitchen, building on top of technologies that they do not understand, powered by companies they do not control.

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> building on top of technologies that they do not understand, powered by companies they do not control.

Isn’t that pretty much the status quo?

I think the new thing that will be happening is that junior developers are dependent on chatgpt and ai for a knowledge base, which is itself powered by companies completely outside of their control. Worst case scenario is that I can always write my own interpreter, with which I can write my own development environments, etc etc. because I have the knowledge. New developers will end up in a state where if chatgpt decides to ban you from their services your career is SOL.

> New developers will end up in a state where if chatgpt decides to ban you from their services your career is SOL.

Is that not an unlikely thing to happen at least for developers working as company employees? The company I am working for has a contract with several LLM providers and there is no option to ban individual employees, as far as I am aware.

For freelancing developers the risks might be greater, but then you are usually not starting as a freelancer as a junior.

I mean this scenario as described is not a huge stretch given it happens to people using stuff like artistic software already. Shitty technology adoption curve for tool dependency and occasional rugpulls of it through bans has hit lots of creative professions at various times. First it's a subscription. Then you don't like the TOS but you can't walk. Then you already violated some TOS term you didn't know about and your stuff no longer works, maybe lost yer whole portfolio too. Don't tell me a business wouldn't

I assume companies will make the job interview process even worse as a result. I really don't do well with CS heavy interviews. I never studied CS, I studied as your job description notes a RELATED field, I took about five different programming language courses at my college, and have years of experience. I'm not going to talk about algorithms I never use because I build websites.

I think this is true as we keep building up abstraction layers. Computers are getting faster yet feel slower as we just want to work with higher level tech which makes it easier to understand less of how the sausage gets made.

But I don't think this is a now problem, in the age of AI, but has been a growing problem for decades as software has matured.

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