The Jobs Landscape in the era of AI
Turns out Senior Devs are still needed after all. You could argue its poetic justice of a kind, and it may be the case. But, I also think its part of the reality of the Bubble we are living in. I like AI tools, I know there is no way of putting the cat back in the bag too.
At the end of the day experience wins the day. Maybe that is a small reason to celebrate.
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Very good analogy dude - 100% agree with you on that. Without the understanding and developer background you can slap together pretty ugly code. Also 1 prompt is very often not enough - many complex things need multiple follow up improvements until they are really ready.
AI is a tool for many but I also know a lot of developers that refuse to use AI for anything - they even write pretty complex regex patterns themselves. In our company there is a no-AI policy in the dev business unit - glad I am not there and can speed up my mssql queries and other things using claude haha
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hope you had a great weekend brother... you were missed
Yessss, we had some great dinners with Tarte Flambée, burgers and a lot of cake together with 8 hours in 40°C+ thermal brine water. We needed that and now I am in vollgas mode again :D
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I've been a developer for many years and things are changing. Where I work it's fairly old-school, but a new generation will come along soon. I may retire in a few years, but I may play with some of the new tools for my own interest.
Playing with Claude Code (finally) for a week now... its blowing my mind more often than not.
AI is a great advancement, but I think, as you say, they're rushing things, and what happened to your brother is happening. They can't get rid of employees with ample experience; I think it was a bad move.
I have 25+ years as a software engineer. I switched from Principal software engineer to a solution architect about a year ago.
My experience and view on this is completely different from yours... First of all in the latest release of Xbox 97%+ of code was not written by humans.
Second we have about 30+ developers, from those we have about five using GitHub Copilot to generate software. I and other solution architects are also doing that. We estimate that in six months or less nobody in our shop is going to write any code.
What we and our best developers are doing is basically writing and fine-tuning instructions for GPT 5.3 Codex or Claude Opus 4.6 and then watch Copilot generate applications for us. And we have just started Agentic development...
Our application delivery for smaller apps went from about 3 months to one day in some cases...
Nobody should be writing code at this point...