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My advice for juniors is that it's too late to get entry level jobs for software engineering, but AI Automation engineering is just starting. Get a Claude code sub and build whatever you can imagine and focus on improving your own coding agent. Automate one more thing every day.

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Software eng has always been automating repetitive decision making and processes. Code is just a series of steps computers/systems follow deterministically. Now we are automating the automation.

I don't necessarily disagree with your advice, but goodness, I don't look forward to using any of the low quality software in the next decade. I hope the shareholders remain happy.

>improving your own coding agent

??????????

write a thousand md files with detailed prompts (and called them skills)?

is that what would get juniors hired? and paid real money? a stack of md files?

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