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The Extinction (or Execution?) of The Junior Engineer - from your friendly neighborhood former moderator

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u/throwaway09234023322 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

You are using this short term market factor to support your thesis tho. You're saying junior positions are disappearing and attributing it to AI when AI is probably the least of the 3 major reasons for reduced junior openings. Also, I feel like your prediction would only be a sh

u/michaelnovati replied ·
My argument is that AI is fundamentally replacing the work done by junior engineers. Permanently. I discussed the argument you make in the essay. Basically my argument is that companies will eventually need to replace senior people but in the true capitalist way, because of lower demand of those jobs, they won't pay you to train you and you'll have to figure it out on your own hunger games style until a few people make it out the other side.