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AI took more than junior developer jobs and the bill comes later

Using generative AI to replace junior developers on bug fixes eliminates the training pipeline for new engineers, warns a Help Net Security analysis. The short-term productivity gain comes at the cost of a depleted junior developer pipeline, with long-term consequences for the industry.

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A ticket comes in for a small bug fix. Hand it to the junior on your team and you wait a day, review something that half works, and sit down to explain what went wrong. Describe it to Claude and the patch merges before lunch. The second path wins on every number your team reports this quarter. It also removes the only training that junior was going to get, and it removes it at every … More

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