Industry will regret not hiring junior developers, warns 3-5 year prediction
bendee983 · x · 2026-11-11
John Crickett predicts the software industry will regret not hiring junior developers over the next 3-5 years: organisations treating junior engineers as an AI-eliminable cost will compete for a shrinking, increasingly expensive pool of experienced engineers, while companies that keep investing in junior talent win.
bendee983 agrees, adding that automation-maxxing is already causing backlash, and that AI's blind spots can only be caught by trained human SMEs — training methods may change, but the development pipeline can't be skipped.
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