AI has torched the market for junior programmers

Re:AI has torched the market for junior programmers by coderatlarge on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:43PM (#48788897)

actually my feeling on this is that pretty soon unless you’re in the top 1% of performers for a software task it will become difficult to hold a role at a frontier company.

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Re:AI has torched the market for junior programmers by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:48AM (#48792743)

They are hiring far too much and far too quickly for this to be the case, right now at least.

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Re:AI has torched the market for junior programmers by coderatlarge on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:24PM (#48820853)

yes it may be valid for large values of “pretty soon”. the market is going to be irrational for as long as it likes :)

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