Technology

My point is that companies hire junior devs in order to train them into senior devs to get more in-house programming ability. Now they can just have their senior devs spin up one more AI agent, so have much less incentive to ever hire juniors.

The newer AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, new new new OpenAI Codex) are much more powerful than even just a year ago, and legitimately feel like force multipliers for senior devs. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UxjmNF7b0 ) Unfortunately, junior devs are too junior to know how to use them to the full extent, and soon will have no job opportunities to ever learn how to become a senior dev.

The programming job market reflects this fact, and has crashed pretty hard for juniors.