AI coding tools are replacing entry-level programming jobs faster than anyone predicted. The traditional path from junior to senior developer is collapsing, and the consequences for the entire industry could be devastating. If you mentor juniors or hire them, this one hits different.

  • Merlin@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    My concern is not the intelligence.

    It’s good enough today to pattern match quite well and what we see as intelligence doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s what it need to replace most of us.

    I tried copy pasting an issue today on copilot and it gave a solution and tests to me that worked.

    I did very small adjustments to the code and I have to say the request wasn’t that well written and it was a slightly difficult thing to solve and it did “one shot” it. I just hate this so much. These newer models are definitely not fully replacing us but it did make me fix an issue much quicker than it takes me to run the unit tests.

    I really hope that the Jevons paradox applies to this and well all have plenty of jobs after this solidifies and we find out their real limits. I just have daily dread about ai I hate that we’re going to increase even more the divide between the super rich and the rest, hopefully I’m being too negative or when governments lose all their tax revenue and people are about to revolt they’ll do something