The “there are no more juniors” part genuinely hit hard. Everyone is busy discussing whether AI will replace developers, but very few are talking about what happens when companies stop producing future senior engineers altogether.

The author is clearly a gifted writer, one can enjoy the article without necessarily agreeing with the ideas presented.

It is sad to see the industry destroying itself by generating so much slop in the name of “productivity”. Even worse, next generation of programmers won’t be able to write a medium size piece of code without training wheels and without paying tribute to the AI overlords.

Yup. 100% agree.