Orion Ussner kidder
@OrionKidder@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
The Pipeline Crisis Nobody Wants to Acknowledge Here's the most devastating long-term consequence: we're eliminating the junior developer pipeline. Companies are replacing junior positions with AI tools, but senior developers don't emerge from thin air. They grow from juniors who: Debug production crashes at 2 AM Learn why that "clever" optimization breaks everything Understand system architecture by building it wrong first Develop intuition through thousands of small failures Without juniors gaining real experience, where will the next generation of senior engineers come from? AI can't learn from its mistakes—it doesn't understand why something failed. It just pattern-matches from training data. We're creating a lost generation of developers who can prompt but can't debug, who can generate but can't architect, who can ship but can't maintain. The math is simple: No juniors today = No seniors tomorrow = No one to fix what AI breaks.
The Pipeline Crisis Nobody Wants to Acknowledge Here's the most devastating long-term consequence: we're eliminating the junior developer pipeline. Companies are replacing junior positions with AI tools, but senior developers don't emerge from thin air. They grow from juniors who: Debug production crashes at 2 AM Learn why that "clever" optimization breaks everything Understand system architecture by building it wrong first Develop intuition through thousands of small failures Without juniors gaining real experience, where will the next generation of senior engineers come from? AI can't learn from its mistakes—it doesn't understand why something failed. It just pattern-matches from training data. We're creating a lost generation of developers who can prompt but can't debug, who can generate but can't architect, who can ship but can't maintain. The math is simple: No juniors today = No seniors tomorrow = No one to fix what AI breaks.
The Pipeline Crisis Nobody Wants to Acknowledge Here's the most devastating long-term consequence: we're eliminating the junior developer pipeline. Companies are replacing junior positions with AI tools, but senior developers don't emerge from thin air. They grow from juniors who: Debug production crashes at 2 AM Learn why that "clever" optimization breaks everything Understand system architecture by building it wrong first Develop intuition through thousands of small failures Without juniors gaining real experience, where will the next generation of senior engineers come from? AI can't learn from its mistakes—it doesn't understand why something failed. It just pattern-matches from training data. We're creating a lost generation of developers who can prompt but can't debug, who can generate but can't architect, who can ship but can't maintain. The math is simple: No juniors today = No seniors tomorrow = No one to fix what AI breaks.
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