What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs?
How do you get medium/senior devs in the future?
That pipeline is needed.
How do you get medium/senior devs in the future?
That pipeline is needed.
Encouraging AI to replace people is just going to make it worse, on top of all the other possible issues.
A not-too-dreary idea: Perhaps the the beginning of the career-arc will change in terms of how quickly developers need to focus on code-reviews and diagnostics (of LLM output) at the expense of "read the docs and follow a guide." Of course that depends on a cultural understanding that LLM output must be checked, and that may take some major industry to become accepted by non-developer bosses, if ever.
I’ve already seen higher level devs ask AIs questions and just copy/paste the answer without checking it as if that’s useful or trustworthy. How is a junior supposed to learn?
or it might also be the opposite and junior devs may be using AI and learn faster.
In my own biz, I stopped hiring junior devs because it's faster for me to use AI for coding than to explain what I need and then validate the implementation with code-review...