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In all seriousness though I do worry for the future of juniors. All the things that people criticise LLMs for, juniors do too. But if nobody hires juniors they will never become senior
Sounds like a Union is a good thing. Apprenticeship programs.
Something tells me Meta and Amazon won't take kindly to any unionization.
This is completely tangential but I think juniors will always be capable of things that LLMs aren't. There's a human component to software that I don't think can be replaced without human experience. The entire purpose of software is for humans to use it. So since the LLM has never experienced using software while being a human, there will always be a divide. Therefore, juniors will be capable of things that LLMs aren't.
Idk, I might be missing a counterpoint, but it makes sense to me.
The good news is that once AI replaces humans for everything, there will be no need to produce software (or anything else) for humans and AI will be out of work.
Honestly, I could see a world, not super far from now, but not right around the corner, where we've created automonous agent driven robots that continue carrying on to do the jobs they've been made to do long after the last of the humans are gone. An echo of our insane capitalistic lives, endlessly looping into eternity.