AMA: 👋 I'm Michael. Former-moderator of the sub, Facebook top performer, "the Coding Machine", junior -> principal / 2009-2017, helper of bootcamps students and grads, founder of Formation for experienced engineers preparing for interviews.

I'm seeing all junior roles of all areas being impacted with no short cut. I'm kind of annoyed that bootcamps keep pivoting to the short term hot area. There was this big pivot to Crypto, then to cyber security, now to medical areas that aren't even programming. It's hard for all juniors because the day to day of what you do is replaceable with the leading age LLMs and tools and bigger companies are still catching up and it's only getting worse. I've given this advice in other answers, but you need judgement through experience to get hired and if you don't have coding experience, leverage the non-technical experience you have. Maybe you played a musical instrument for 15 years, did figure skating, ballet, soccer, collect stamps or pokemon cards, played video games. Whatever you spent more time doing than most people, start by plopping yourself down there and networking.