Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by close04 on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:43AM
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How are junior devs becoming qualified “guiding hands” these days? If the expert with LLM assistance is multiplied, what’s a company’s incentive to pay for a junior, and how would they train to get good in these conditions?
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Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by CuriouslyC on Sunday July 26, 2026 @08:29AM
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Juniors are still useful, but not as pure "coders". The juniors you want to hire now can wear product, engineering and QA hats, and are self starters with good attention to detail and AI skills. These types of people are actually a bargain.
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by throwaway7783 on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:31AM
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Yes, but very few people are on that edge of product and technology. From that angle LLMs are destroying the junior engineer dev market
Re:What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
by throwaway7783 on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:30AM
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I agree on this one. Junior developers are not yet good guiding hands yet.
But for the motivated junior developers LLMs are a great onboarding and learning tool. A good senior engineer must still guide, and there are very large gaps on how it's being done