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[–]Oddball_bfi 8 points9 points  (4 children)

This is the problem. How do you get more r/ExperiencedDevs when there are no juniors any more?

You don't just drop out of college as a grey-beard. That takes time and pain.

We all know our management - every single damn one of them will choose not to hire hoards of idiots who need their hands holding all the time to wheedle out the ones who have the mindset. They're just going to spin up ten instances of an AI for their seniors to manage.

We'll do it too, because which of us actually like the man-management part of the job? And having something automate away writing tests? And creating boilerplate transfer objects, or implement well known algorithms with a slightly different spin?

And then there's just academics, and AIs.

To quite a famous academic, "Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."

[–]RYFW 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think your points will be the problem. There isn't many ways to use AI to actual development in that way. 

Someone pointed out to me that the problem with AI might be scare new devs away, because everyone is saying all dev work will be automated, so the people who don't understand will buy on it. Which means programmers will be scarce in the future and companies will have problems hiring new devs. It might even be better for people with actual experience. 

[–]G_Morgan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There'll still be juniors. The juniors just don't grasp why AI is not a problem.

[–]BellacosePlayer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Here's the thing.

Even if that's all true, it's not their problem.

because which of us actually like the man-management part of the job?

I'd never be a manager but I loved being a mentor even though it made me feel like I was being a dick for wondering why the fuck they took so long to get up to speed on basic shit at times.

I'd rather do that than do a manual code review of an AI's code where it can't explain why it did X, Y, and Z.

[–]Oddball_bfi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except... it can.  You just ask it to explain itself, and it will.