Re:GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
by scarface_74 on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:41PM
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> How is that not trying to replace at least a small section of junior/boilerplate developers?
This was a danger before AI ever became a thing. If that’s all someone is doing, there was always a danger of being outsourced to someone who would work for less than you would.
And today in 2025, ignoring AI, there are thousands of generic framework developers struggling to get a job because every job they apply to has thousands of applications and companies can choose any good enough developer.
It was always hard to break the can’t get a job <-> don’t have experience cycle. Now it’s going to be harder.
The solution at least for awhile is to run closer to the customer/stakeholder.
This was a danger before AI ever became a thing. If that’s all someone is doing, there was always a danger of being outsourced to someone who would work for less than you would.
And today in 2025, ignoring AI, there are thousands of generic framework developers struggling to get a job because every job they apply to has thousands of applications and companies can choose any good enough developer.
It was always hard to break the can’t get a job <-> don’t have experience cycle. Now it’s going to be harder.
The solution at least for awhile is to run closer to the customer/stakeholder.