AI may have broken the junior developer pipeline that trains future senior engineers
JeremyCMorgan · x · 2026-07-29
A DEV Community article argues that AI has broken the junior developer pipeline by automating away the exact work that used to train future seniors.
- The piece says the industry likes the story that AI makes senior engineers more valuable.
- But senior engineers are not a renewable resource: they are produced slowly through boring, unglamorous work, incidents, and codebase immersion.
- If AI removes the bottom rung, the article warns, companies may be cutting off the supply of people who eventually become senior engineers.
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