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But the only way to learn debugging is to have experience coding. So if we let AI do the coding then all the entry level coding jobs go away and no one learns to debug.
This isn't just a code thing. This is all kinds of professions. AI will kill the entry level which will prevent new people from getting experience which will have downstream effects throughout entire industries.
It already started happening before LLM AI. Have you heard the joke that we were teaching our parents how to use printers and PCs with mouse and keyboard and now we have to do the same with our children? It’s really not a joke. We are the last generation that have seen it all evolving before our eyes, we know the fundamentals of each layer of abstraction the current technology is built upon. It was natural process for us to learn all of this and now suddenly we expect "fresh people" to grasp 50 years or so of progress in 5 or so years?
Interesting times ahead of us.
Good point
Have you used any AI for programming? There is 0 chance entry level jobs will be replaced. AI only works well if what it needs to do is well defined, as a dev that is almost never the case. Also companies understand that to create a senior dev they need a junior dev they can train. Also cooperations do not trust Google, openAI, meta, ect with their intellectual property. My company made it a firedable offense if they catch you uploading IP to an AI.
We live in a world where every company wants people that can hit the ground running, requires 5 years of experience for an entry level job on a language that's only been out for three years. On the job training died long ago.
The junior devs are my job are way better at debugging than AI, lol. Granted they are top talent hires because no one else can break in these days.
In my experience, LLMs are good for code snippets and input on best practices.
I use it as a tool to speed up my work, but I don't see it replacing even entry jobs any time soon.