Being an entry level software engineer right now is hell.
People at my department joked around saying ChatGPT was like having your own personal intern, you can ask them to do dumb shit and you just come around and take the bits that the LLM got right.
That was a year ago, and LLMs have advanced a lot since then.
Even if LLMs can’t replace an entry level programmer upper management sure believe they do.
I don’t think progammers will be fully replaced but we are entering into an era of entry level programmer jobs imploding for years to come.
You can’t have senior engineers if you don’t ever hire juniors.
I don’t even think AI proponent CEOs are missing this part of the equation, they just don’t care about what happens in the next 2 - 4 years , capitalism gonna capitalist 🤷♂️
Being an entry level software engineer right now is hell.
People at my department joked around saying ChatGPT was like having your own personal intern, you can ask them to do dumb shit and you just come around and take the bits that the LLM got right.
That was a year ago, and LLMs have advanced a lot since then.
Even if LLMs can’t replace an entry level programmer upper management sure believe they do.
I don’t think progammers will be fully replaced but we are entering into an era of entry level programmer jobs imploding for years to come.
You can’t have senior engineers if you don’t ever hire juniors.
I don’t even think AI proponent CEOs are missing this part of the equation, they just don’t care about what happens in the next 2 - 4 years , capitalism gonna capitalist 🤷♂️