Wow, this sounds like a reality check for companies who think they shouldn't hire juniors anymore, because AI in the hands of seniors will replace them? But in the meantime, reading what you write:
1) Coding is at most 15-10% of the whole software development process (who would be surprised at that? well, not me)
2) And when we use AI for those 15-20% it only works really well for some tasks, while for other tasks it incurs other costs (the need for more reviewing, code bloat, security vulns, etcetera) - and note that fixing those issues will take time from senior devs, not juniors ...
Are companies being far too optimistic, and are they kidding themselves?
I'm not against using AI for tasks it's suited to, but somehow I can't conceal feeling some sort of satisfaction thinking that those companies rushing to dump their junior devs, out of an urge to save a few bucks, might reach a point where they're thinking again ...
P.S. regarding OpenAI and their new product - of course OpenAI just wants to make a buck and sell tokens :-)
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Wow, this sounds like a reality check for companies who think they shouldn't hire juniors anymore, because AI in the hands of seniors will replace them? But in the meantime, reading what you write:
1) Coding is at most 15-10% of the whole software development process (who would be surprised at that? well, not me)
2) And when we use AI for those 15-20% it only works really well for some tasks, while for other tasks it incurs other costs (the need for more reviewing, code bloat, security vulns, etcetera) - and note that fixing those issues will take time from senior devs, not juniors ...
Are companies being far too optimistic, and are they kidding themselves?
I'm not against using AI for tasks it's suited to, but somehow I can't conceal feeling some sort of satisfaction thinking that those companies rushing to dump their junior devs, out of an urge to save a few bucks, might reach a point where they're thinking again ...
P.S. regarding OpenAI and their new product - of course OpenAI just wants to make a buck and sell tokens :-)