A Junior Dev is not just for Christmas, it’s for life.

But more seriously are there CEOs out there who think they can replace the people starting off in their industry with AI? Who do the think will be the senior devs in 5-10yrs?

Yet the big corporations all do it. So, something in the meta-explain-chain here does not work. You can not go about "this is a dumb idea", but then do it anyway - that just doesn't add up.

I find it a little weird that junior devs are considered not good in general.

When I started working, I think I was fairly competent technically, and usually the people I hired were also pretty good straight out of uni.

What a complete moron. This is why every senior dev hates these idiots in mid management. The kids know better? Yeah right. The new kids knows nothing. Recognizing how things work is not knowledge.

But I think the actual reason was not addressed. The work of junior devs is exactly what can be replaced by AI, instead of the more complex abilities senior development possess.

> A company that relies solely on AI to handle tasks without training new talent could find itself short of people.

I kind of agree with this point from the perspective of civilisation.

Same story from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151

4) Junior devs have an incomparably superior context window.

To me the more insidious problem is that we have juniors now that aren’t learning much because they lean on AI for everything. They are behind the curve.

old zuckerburg said 80% of junior developers would be cut in 2026, I say 80% of CEO's who replace their software engineers will be cut in 2026