The third point is applicable to general demographic survival as well. Countries with most child birth rates, would ultimately win.

If you don't invest in juniors, it will only be like 20 years until you're out of seniors.

Obviously. If you don't have junior devs you will never have senior ones either. It's implicit.

Cheaper in the short term until executives turn over, then it's the next guy's problem.

They know AI is inefficient and mostly just a glorified "template filler" at this point...

he is saying that while doing that. if you look at who gets laid off and who gets hired guess what? l7-l6 are fired. l4-l5 hired. they most likely think replacing senior by a junior with ai is worth it financially

And yet, they won't like it if aspiring SDEs use AI to "assist" when interviewing :D

Just yesterday had a coding interview (not any FAANG) and the interviewer wanted a screen share and also checked my IDE settings to make sure "AI" was turned off.

Not that I intended to or even intend to use LLM based tooling for interviews.

Although having said that, if I intended to, interviewers won't find out. Interviews should always be done in person. (That took a different tangent... sorry)

Replacing juniors with AI is a fantastic idea.

Let’s also replace mids while we’re at it.

— A senior developer

Junior devs become senior devs. No more junior devs = no more senior devs.