I have a hard time hiring juniors ever since AI came up and I get the same work output for 20$ from the AI as from a junior for 3000-4000$. Bonus is the AI does not talk back or is sick (only Anthropic sometimes has outages), negative is that a human can still do some tasks an AI cannot, like setup a new PC or talk to the customer. I was thinking: (to me), AI is more productive than most junior devs right now with the same effort on my side. AI is developing very very quickly. Look at recent evolution in models. Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3/5.4, and finally Google has a decent model with Gemini 3.1. All of them are very good coders with their respective tool. If that development keeps up, a junior in his whole life might never be able to catch up and always be worse than an AI. (Better programmers might be eventually affected too. I think Anthropic CEO said that 50% of humans will be out of work reasonably soon.) That means, a junior dev might never ever again find a job. Just food for thought. submitted by /u/rabandi
Originally posted by u/rabandi on r/ArtificialInteligence
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