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> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output

This. Programming will become easier for everyone. But the emergent effect will be that senior engineers become more valuable, juniors much less.

Why? It's an idea multiplier. 10x of near-zero is still almost zero. And 10x of someone who's a 10 already - they never need to interact with a junior engineer again.

> until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

Who will write the prompts? How do you measure the success? Who will plan the market strategy? Humans are needed in the loop by definition as we build software to achieve human goals. We'll just need significantly fewer people to achieve them.



All senior engineers were junior engineers at one point.

I worry where we will get the next generation of senior engineers.


Exactly. It's already bad, with seniors being pushed to 100% with 0% slack to train up the next generation. No time for that. LLMs will make this worse.




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