It makes sense to hire junior engineers for big businesses, sure. I think you underestimate how much work a solo developer can get done with GPT. Yesterday, I

It makes sense to hire junior engineers for big businesses, sure. I think you underestimate how much work a solo developer can get done with GPT. Yesterday, I implemented a recursive PostgreSQL function to crunch some pretty complex tables to produce a new output. As a senior engineer, I knew the output I wanted and understood the trade offs, but I didn’t want to spend 3 whole days trying to figure out how to build the recursive function myself. Claude did it correctly in about 5 minutes, and then I spent another hour or two just tweaking and exploring alternate options. I think it also goes without saying that I could not handle this to a junior engineer. We’re quite clearly past the “GPT is only as good as a junior engineer” phase. It’s so different from anything else that’s ever existed. You could not do what I did yesterday without spending a LOT more time. Google would not have solved that problem, nor would a junior engineer.