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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by Eridrus on Friday March 06, 2026 @02:00PM (#47279493)
> they're just as capable as using AI as anyone

They're just as capable of typing prompts into AI, but what they don't have is good judgement of what good work/code looks like, so what's the point of asking a junior engineer to do something vs asking the LLM directly?

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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by alienbaby on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:10PM (#47281102)
The junior engineer will become a senior. An llm wont. For now, anyway.
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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by cucumber3732842 on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:12PM (#47281132)
Because a lot of stuff doesn't need to be good it needs to be done.

Nobody is gonna loose money because some script that generates yaml for the build process every hour nested two loops instead of 3.

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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by Eridrus on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:24AM (#47298068)
This isn't really an argument for hiring junior folks though.
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